Timeline Of The Great Purge
The Great Purge of 1936-1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods:
- October 1936 - February 1937
- Reforming the security organizations, adopting official plans for purging the elites.
- March 1937 - June 1937
- Purging the Elites; Adoption of plans for the mass repressions against the "social base" of the potential aggressors, start of purging the "opposition" from the "elites".
- July 1937 - October 1938
- Mass repressions against "kulaks", "dangerous" ethnic minorities, family members of opposition members, military officers, Saboteurs in agriculture and industry.
- November 1938 - 1939
- So called Beria thaw: stop of mass operations, abolition of many organs which imposed extrajudicial executions, punishment of some organizers of mass repressions.
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