Stalinist repressions

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human rights violations mass political violence political repression campaign state terrorism

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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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Stalinist purges	10
Stalinist repressions canonical	10
Soviet repressions against Poles	2
Stalinism	2
Moscow show trials	1
Soviet Gulag repression	1
Soviet political repressions	1
Soviet repressive apparatus	1
Stalinist deportations	1
Stalinist political repressions	1
Stalinist repression	1
Stalinist terror	1
World War II repressions in the Soviet Union	1

Statements (105)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human rights violations ⓘ 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 ⓘ elimination of real and perceived opposition ⓘ forced industrialization and collectivization policies ⓘ totalitarian control ⓘ
consequence	climate of fear and denunciation ⓘ 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 ⓘ millions imprisoned or deported ⓘ millions of people ⓘ
follows	Russian Civil War repressions ⓘ
hasLeader	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
hasPart	Doctors' Plot ⓘ 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 ⓘ 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 ⓘ 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 ⓘ late 1920s ⓘ

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Holodomor → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Polish deportees in the USSR → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet repressions against Poles

Yezhovshchina → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist repression

Yezhovshchina → significantEvent → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moscow show trials

Katyn massacre → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet repressions against Poles

Katyn massacre → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet political repressions

Ingrian Finns → persecutionEvent → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist deportations

Secret Speech of 1956 → topic → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences → criticizes → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Ivan Bakayev → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Their Morals and Ours → mainSubject → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinism

Their Morals and Ours → criticizes → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinism

Mikheil Javakhishvili → politicalRepression → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Beria period of the NKVD → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia → timePeriod → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Dovid Bergelson → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Vasily Ulrikh → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet repressive apparatus

Sergei Mrachkovsky → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Dalstroy → associatedWith → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist terror

Sergei Sedov → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Mask of Sorrow → associatedWith → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Grigory Yevdokimov → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Konstantin Berman-Yurin → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Leningrad Affair → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist political repressions

Anna Larina → politicalContext → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Arkady Rosengolts → notableEvent → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Arkady Rosengolts → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: World War II repressions in the Soviet Union

Solovetsky Islands → notableEvent → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet Gulag repression

Titsian Tabidze → victimOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges

Operation Lentil → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

Night of the Murdered Poets → partOf → Stalinist repressions ⓘ

this entity surface form: Stalinist purges