Stalinist repressions
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Stalinist repressions were a series of brutal state-sponsored persecutions, mass arrests, executions, and engineered famines under Joseph Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union, targeting perceived political enemies and entire social groups.
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Statements (105)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human rights violations
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mass political violence ⓘ political repression campaign ⓘ state terrorism ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| appliesToPopulation |
Communist Party members
ⓘ
Soviet military officers ⓘ
surface form:
Red Army officers
clergy ⓘ ethnic minorities ⓘ former elites of the Russian Empire ⓘ intellectuals ⓘ kulaks ⓘ nationalist movements ⓘ peasants resisting collectivization ⓘ perceived political opponents ⓘ prisoners of war repatriated to USSR ⓘ so-called enemies of the people ⓘ suspected spies and saboteurs ⓘ |
| cause |
Stalinist ideology
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elimination of real and perceived opposition ⓘ forced industrialization and collectivization policies ⓘ totalitarian control ⓘ |
| consequence |
climate of fear and denunciation
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demographic losses in the Soviet Union ⓘ destruction of political pluralism ⓘ long-term distrust of state institutions ⓘ strengthening of Stalin’s personal dictatorship ⓘ suppression of national cultures ⓘ trauma for Soviet society ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| endTime | 1953 ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfVictims |
hundreds of thousands executed
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millions imprisoned or deported ⓘ millions of people ⓘ |
| follows | Russian Civil War repressions ⓘ |
| hasLeader | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Doctors' Plot
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Great Purge ⓘ Gulag system ⓘ Holodomor ⓘ Leningrad Affair ⓘ Moscow Trials ⓘ anti-nationalist campaigns ⓘ anti-peasant campaigns ⓘ anti-religious campaigns ⓘ campaigns against so-called enemies of the people ⓘ censorship and surveillance ⓘ dekulakization ⓘ engineered famines ⓘ ethnic cleansing operations ⓘ forced collectivization ⓘ forced labor ⓘ mass arrests ⓘ mass deportations of peoples ⓘ mass executions ⓘ mass operations of NKVD ⓘ political show trials ⓘ postwar anti-cosmopolitan campaign ⓘ purges of Communist Party ⓘ purges of Red Army ⓘ purges of security services ⓘ religious persecution ⓘ repression of intelligentsia ⓘ |
| historicalAssessment | crime against humanity (in many scholarly interpretations) ⓘ |
| location |
Baltic states
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surface form:
Baltic republics
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
surface form:
Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
Caucasus ⓘ
surface form:
Caucasus region
Central Asia ⓘ Russia Far East ⓘ
surface form:
Far East of the Soviet Union
Kazakh SSR ⓘ
surface form:
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
Russian SFSR ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Siberia ⓘ Soviet Ukraine ⓘ
surface form:
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
|
| mainPerpetrator | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| memorializedBy |
Gulag museums
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Memorial (human rights group) ⓘ
surface form:
Memorial society
monuments to victims of political repression ⓘ |
| method |
censorship
ⓘ
confiscation of property ⓘ denunciation system ⓘ deportations ⓘ engineered famine ⓘ forced labor camps ⓘ mass arrests ⓘ propaganda campaigns ⓘ show trials ⓘ summary executions ⓘ surveillance ⓘ torture during interrogations ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
some Soviet dissidents
ⓘ
émigré communities ⓘ |
| organizer |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
NKVD ⓘ Soviet secret police ⓘ KGB ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet security services
|
| partOf |
20th-century political repression
ⓘ
history of communism ⓘ history of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| significantPeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
Great Purge ⓘ Holodomor ⓘ
surface form:
Holodomor period
postwar late Stalinism ⓘ |
| startTime |
1920s
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late 1920s ⓘ |
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