Stalinist purges

GPTKB entity

Properties (64)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf political repression
gptkbp:associated_with totalitarianism
the_purging_of_the_Communist_Party
gptkbp:causedBy gptkb:Joseph_Stalin
gptkbp:completed 1938
gptkbp:createdBy climate of fear
gptkbp:criticism human rights organizations
Western historians
gptkbp:death hundreds of thousands
gptkbp:depicts historical documentaries
gptkbp:documentedIn memoirs
gptkbp:facilitates state security agencies
gptkbp:foundedIn 1936
gptkbp:has_a_focus_on historical research.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Stalinist purges
gptkbp:impact ethnic minorities
Communist_Party_members
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:the_Spanish_Civil_War
the Great Purge
Soviet_society
gptkbp:inspiration literature
films
gptkbp:involved propaganda
NKVD
gptkbp:is_a political cleansing
gptkbp:is_a_key_player_in Soviet_history
gptkbp:is_a_subject_of artistic expression
debate among historians
documentary films
gptkbp:is_characterized_by paranoia
mass arrests
gptkbp:is_featured_in a dark chapter in history
gptkbp:is_involved_in torture
gptkbp:is_known_for memorials
their brutality
gptkbp:is_part_of gptkb:Stalin's_regime
Soviet_repression
gptkbp:is_studied_in sociological studies
history courses
their psychological impact
gptkbp:is_used_in literary works
political discourse
political science literature
Nazi_purges
gptkbp:ledTo historical revisionism
displacement of populations
political show trials
gptkbp:occursAnnually Great Terror
gptkbp:opposedBy Stalin's_ideology
gptkbp:resultedIn mass executions
imprisonment in Gulags
gptkbp:saw_the_rise_of gptkb:Stalin's_cult_of_personality
a police state
gptkbp:suitableFor a violation of human rights
gptkbp:tactics consolidating power
gptkbp:takesPlaceIn gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:targets gptkb:intelligentsia
military leaders
political opponents
gptkbp:was_a_factor_in the_Cold_War_dynamics
gptkbp:was_a_response_to perceived threats
the_assassination_of_Sergei_Kirov
gptkbp:was_marked_by show trials
the use of informants