Yezhovshchina
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Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical event
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political purge → state repression campaign → |
| aimedAt |
eliminating perceived “enemies of the people”
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strengthening Stalin’s control over the Communist Party → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Yezhov terror
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| authorizedBy |
Joseph Stalin
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| characterizedBy |
deportations to Gulag camps
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forced confessions → mass arrests → mass executions → secret police terror → show trials → targeting of Communist Party members → targeting of Red Army officers → targeting of intelligentsia → targeting of national minorities → torture during interrogations → widespread denunciations → |
| country |
Soviet Union
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| endTime |
1938
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| estimatedNumberOfVictims |
hundreds of thousands executed
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over a million arrested → |
| followedBy |
Beria period of the NKVD
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| hasCause |
Joseph Stalin’s consolidation of power
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perceived internal enemies in the Soviet Union → political paranoia in Stalinist leadership → |
| location |
Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
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Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic → Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic → other Soviet republics → |
| mainPerpetrator |
NKVD
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Nikolai Yezhov → |
| namedAfter |
Nikolai Yezhov
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| partOf |
Great Purge
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Stalinist repression → |
| politicalContext |
Stalin’s personal dictatorship
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elimination of real and imagined opposition → |
| result |
climate of fear in Soviet society
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decimation of Soviet military leadership → long-term trauma in Soviet population → mass expansion of the Gulag system → |
| significantEvent |
Moscow show trials
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mass operations against alleged “kulaks” → national operations against ethnic minorities → purge of Red Army leadership → |
| startTime |
1936
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1937 → |
Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Great Purge
→
Yezhovshchina ("Yezhov terror") → |
alsoKnownAs |
|
Nikolai Yezhov
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notableEvent |
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Beria period of the NKVD
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precededBy |