The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор, romanized: Bol'shoy terror), also known as the Year of '37 (37-й год, Tridtsat' sed'moy...

The Great Purge of 1936–1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods: October 1936 - February 1937 Reforming the security organizations...

In history, religion and political science, a purge is a position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from...

Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were Soviet...

The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties is a book by British historian Robert Conquest which was published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate...

The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 American dystopian political action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco and starring Frank Grillo, Elizabeth...

refer to: Purge (occupied Japan), the forcible removal of undesirable Japanese from public service during occupation of Japan Great Purge, a campaign...

Armenian victims of the Great Purge included Armenian intellectuals, writers, artists, Bolshevik and later Soviet statesmen, military commanders, and...

First Five-Year Plan (1928–1932) the killings reached a peak in the Great Purge of 1937–1938. At all times they were directed and carried out by the...

political opponents and those deemed "enemies of the working class" in the Great Purge, after which he had absolute control of the party and government. Under...