NKVD

E14038

The NKVD was the Soviet Union’s interior ministry and secret police organization, notorious for political repression, mass arrests, and executions, especially under Joseph Stalin.

All labels observed (19)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet state security agency
interior ministry
secret police
abbreviation NKVD self-link
country Soviet Union
dateDissolved 1946
dateFormed 1934
fullName NKVD self-linksurface differs
surface form: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
headquartersLocation Moscow
ideology Marxism–Leninism
jurisdiction Soviet Union
languageOfWork Russian
legalBasis decrees of the Soviet government
loyalTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
nativeName NKVD self-linksurface differs
surface form: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел
notableLeader Genrikh Yagoda
Lavrentiy Beria
Nikolai Yezhov
notoriousFor fabrication of charges
show trials
use of torture during interrogations
operatedDuring Stalin era
World War II
oversaw Soviet Internal Troops
surface form: NKVD Troops

border troops
internal troops
partOf Council of People's Commissars
surface form: Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
predecessor Cheka
GPU
GPU
surface form: OGPU
responsibleFor Great Purge
Gulag system operations
Katyn massacre
border security
counterintelligence
deportations of entire ethnic groups
enforcement of Stalinist policies
espionage abroad
executions of political opponents
forced labor camps administration
internal security
mass arrests
political repression in the Soviet Union
suppression of dissent
subordinateTo Joseph Stalin
successor KGB
MGB
MVD
usedMethod arbitrary detention
informant networks
surveillance

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (112)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

NKVD camps supervisedBy NKVD
this entity surface form: NKVD Main Directorate of Camps
VChK influenced NKVD
Special Departments followedBy NKVD
this entity surface form: NKVD Special Departments
Ministry of Public Security influencedBy NKVD
subject surface form: Ministry of Public Security (Poland)
this entity surface form: Soviet NKVD
NKWD abbreviation NKVD
subject surface form: NKVD