Beria period of the NKVD

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historical period period of the Soviet security services

The Beria period of the NKVD refers to the era when Lavrentiy Beria led the Soviet security apparatus, marked by a partial rollback of the Great Terror’s mass repressions and a shift toward more controlled, politically targeted security operations.

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Label	Occurrences
Beria period of the NKVD canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical period ⓘ period of the Soviet security services ⓘ
agency	Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR ⓘ surface form: People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
appliesTo	NKVD ⓘ
associatedWith	Gulag system ⓘ Soviet atomic project security ⓘ Soviet wartime security measures ⓘ
characterizedBy	continued political policing ⓘ continued use of forced labor ⓘ more controlled security operations ⓘ partial rollback of mass repressions ⓘ politically targeted repression ⓘ reduction of indiscriminate arrests ⓘ release of some prisoners ⓘ review of some Great Terror cases ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
endDate	1945 ⓘ
follows	Nikolai Yezhov’s leadership of the NKVD ⓘ
governingIdeology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ Stalin era ⓘ surface form: Stalinism
headOfAgency	Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
includesEvent	World War II internal security operations ⓘ deportation of Balkars and Karachays ⓘ deportation of Chechens and Ingush ⓘ deportation of Crimean Tatars ⓘ deportation of Kalmyks ⓘ deportation of Volga Germans ⓘ mass deportations of ethnic groups ⓘ
languageOfAdministration	Russian ⓘ
leader	Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
legalFramework	Soviet criminal code on counterrevolutionary crimes ⓘ
overlapsWith	World War II ⓘ early Cold War ⓘ
partOf	Stalinist repressions ⓘ history of the NKVD ⓘ
policyDirection	centralization of security control under Beria ⓘ greater emphasis on intelligence and counterintelligence ⓘ rationalization of investigative procedures ⓘ selective rehabilitation of some officials ⓘ
precededBy	Great Purge ⓘ surface form: Great Terror Yezhovshchina ⓘ
resultedIn	continuation of political repression in more targeted form ⓘ decline in the scale of arbitrary executions compared to the Great Terror ⓘ strengthening of Beria’s political influence ⓘ
startDate	1938 ⓘ
supervisedBy	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
terminatesWith	reorganization of NKVD into MVD and MGB ⓘ

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Subject: Beria period of the NKVD
Description of subject: The Beria period of the NKVD refers to the era when Lavrentiy Beria led the Soviet security apparatus, marked by a partial rollback of the Great Terror’s mass repressions and a shift toward more controlled, politically targeted security operations.

Referenced by (1)

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Yezhovshchina → followedBy → Beria period of the NKVD ⓘ