Leningrad Affair

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The Leningrad Affair was a late-1940s Soviet political purge in which Stalin orchestrated the arrest and execution of prominent Leningrad Party and government officials to eliminate perceived regional rivals and consolidate his power.

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Leningrad Affair canonical 2
Leningrad Case 1
Leningradskoye delo 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political purge
political repression campaign
show trial
alsoKnownAs Leningrad Affair
surface form: Leningrad Case

Leningrad Affair
surface form: Leningradskoye delo
chronology post-World War II period
country Soviet Union
endTime 1950
followedBy post-Stalin rehabilitation of victims
hasCause Joseph Stalin's fear of regional rivals
power consolidation by Joseph Stalin
suspicion of Leningrad Party leadership
hasEffect intimidation of regional party elites
strengthening of central party control
weakening of Leningrad's political influence
languageOfRecord Russian
location Leningrad
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Soviet Union
surface form: USSR
motive centralization of political power in Moscow
elimination of perceived Leningrad opposition center
suppression of regional autonomy
numberOfArrests hundreds of Leningrad officials
numberOfExecutions several dozen leading officials
numberOfVictims thousands of party and government officials
participant Aleksei Kuznetsov
Georgy Malenkov
Joseph Stalin
Lavrentiy Beria
Leningrad City Committee of the Communist Party
surface form: Leningrad City Party Committee

Leningrad Regional Party Committee
Mikhail Rodionov
Министерство государственной безопасности СССР
surface form: Ministry of State Security of the USSR

Nikolai Voznesensky
Pyotr Popkov
Soviet military tribunals
partOf Stalinist repressions
surface form: Stalinist political repressions

late Stalinism
perpetrator Joseph Stalin
Министерство государственной безопасности СССР
surface form: Ministry of State Security of the USSR

Soviet security organs
rehabilitation 1954
1955
relatedTo Doctors' Plot
Mingrelian Affair
significantEvent arrest of Aleksei Kuznetsov in 1949
arrest of Nikolai Voznesensky in 1949
execution of leading Leningrad officials in 1950
secret trials of Leningrad leaders in 1950
startTime 1949

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Stalinist repressions hasPart Leningrad Affair
Leningrad Affair alsoKnownAs Leningrad Affair
this entity surface form: Leningrad Case
Leningrad Affair alsoKnownAs Leningrad Affair
this entity surface form: Leningradskoye delo
Doctors' Plot relatedEvent Leningrad Affair