Beria period of the NKVD
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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.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical period
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period of the Soviet security services → |
| agency |
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
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| appliesTo |
NKVD
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| associatedWith |
Gulag system
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Soviet atomic project security → Soviet wartime security measures → |
| characterizedBy |
continued political policing
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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
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| endDate |
1945
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| follows |
Nikolai Yezhov’s leadership of the NKVD
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| governingIdeology |
Marxism–Leninism
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Stalinism → |
| headOfAgency |
Lavrentiy Beria
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| includesEvent |
World War II internal security operations
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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
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| leader |
Lavrentiy Beria
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| legalFramework |
Soviet criminal code on counterrevolutionary crimes
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| overlapsWith |
World War II
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early Cold War → |
| partOf |
Stalinist repressions
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history of the NKVD → |
| policyDirection |
centralization of security control under Beria
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greater emphasis on intelligence and counterintelligence → rationalization of investigative procedures → selective rehabilitation of some officials → |
| precededBy |
Great Terror
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Yezhovshchina → |
| resultedIn |
continuation of political repression in more targeted form
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decline in the scale of arbitrary executions compared to the Great Terror → strengthening of Beria’s political influence → |
| startDate |
1938
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| supervisedBy |
Joseph Stalin
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| terminatesWith |
reorganization of NKVD into MVD and MGB
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Yezhovshchina
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followedBy |