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Great Purge

The Great Purge, or the Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate his power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state. The purges... Wikipedia
Start date: August 1936
Location: Soviet Union
End date: November 17, 1938
Target: Political opponents, Trotskyists, Red Army leadership, kulaks, religious activists and leaders