Timeline of The Great Purge
The Great Purge of 1936–1938 can be roughly divided into four periods:
- October 1936–February 1937
- Reforming the security organizations, adopting official plans on purging the elites.
- March 1937–June 1937
- Purging the Elites; Adopting plans for the mass repressions against the "social base" of the potential aggressors, starting of purging the "elites" from opposition.
- July 1937–October 1938
- Mass repressions against "kulaks", "dangerous" ethnic minorities, family members of oppositionists, military officers, Saboteurs in agriculture and industry.
- November 1938–1939
- Stopping of mass operations, abolishing of many organs of extrajudicial executions, repressions against some organizers of mass repressions.
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