state repression campaign
C948
concept
A state repression campaign is a coordinated effort by government authorities to control, intimidate, or eliminate perceived opponents through legal, extralegal, or violent means.
Aliases (6)
- Japanization campaign ×1
- anti-Protestant campaign ×1
- anti-communist campaign ×1
- campaign of political violence ×1
- state-sponsored terror ×1
- white supremacist campaign ×1
Instances (8)
- Yezhovshchina
- Great Purge
- Nazi war crimes ("state-sponsored terror")
- Kominka movement ("Japanization campaign")
- Mississippi Plan of 1875 ("campaign of political violence")
- McCarthyism ("anti-communist campaign")
- Marian persecutions ("anti-Protestant campaign")