Stalin's Great Terror

GPTKB entity

Properties (78)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical event
gptkbp:causedBy gptkb:Joseph_Stalin
gptkbp:characterizedBy political repression
gptkbp:createdBy climate of fear
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gptkbp:impact millions of people
gptkbp:influenced Soviet_society
gptkbp:involved show trials
mass surveillance
forced confessions
secret police operations
gptkbp:isChallengedBy gptkb:World_War_II
intellectuals
political purges
post-war repression
cultural repression
some military leaders
some_Communist_Party_members
some_Soviet_citizens
gptkbp:isCharacterizedBy mass executions
political violence
state-sponsored violence
systematic persecution
fear and suspicion
arbitrary_arrests
gptkbp:isCriticizedFor activists
human rights violations
human rights organizations
Western historians
political oppression
lack of due process
gptkbp:isDocumentedIn historical records
historical accounts
journalists
literature
historical literature
historical analyses
historical documentaries
memoirs
survivors' testimonies
gptkbp:isEngagedIn documentaries
historians
academic studies
sociologists
gptkbp:isFacilitatedBy legal frameworks
propaganda
state propaganda
informants
legal repression
state security agencies
gptkbp:isInfluencedBy political ideology
paranoia
fear of foreign invasion
totalitarian_ideology
Stalin's_paranoia
gptkbp:isVisitedBy gptkb:Stalin's_regime
ideological reasons
gptkbp:ledTo social upheaval
displacement of families
purges_of_the_Communist_Party
Gulag_system_expansion
gptkbp:occursAnnually 1936 to 1938
gptkbp:resultedIn executions
mass arrests
deaths of millions
gptkbp:targets gptkb:intelligentsia
military leaders
political dissidents
gptkbp:wasEducatedAt ethnic minorities
eliminating rivals
dissenters
consolidating power
dissident intellectuals
eliminating opposition
purging the military
gptkbp:wasPartOf Great Purge
Soviet_repression
Stalin's_policies