mass political repression

Mass political repression is the systematic, large-scale use of coercion, surveillance, and violence by authorities to silence, control, or eliminate political opposition and dissent within a population.

Aliases (4)

• political repression campaign ×5
• political repression ×3
• Soviet political repression ×1
• mass political violence ×1

Instances (11)

• Katyn massacre ("political repression")
• Red Terror ("political repression campaign")
• White Terror ("political repression campaign")
• Great Purge
• Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919 ("political repression")
• Stalinist repressions ("political repression campaign")
• Holodomor ("political repression")
• White Terror in Taiwan ("political repression campaign")
• Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) ("Soviet political repression")
• White Terror in Finland ("political repression campaign")