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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Great Purge, Gas van, Timeline of the Great Purge, Operation Scherhorn, NKVD special camps, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, NKVD prisoner massacres, Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertow, Soviet Border Troops, Fantana Alb massacre, Gestapo-NKVD Conferences, Rainiai massacre, Bykivnia, Internal Troops, SMERSH, Olga Chekhova, Barrier troops, Soviet repressions in Belarus, Vinnytsia massacre, 1937 mass execution of Belarusians, New Martyr, Kurapaty, Mass graves in the Soviet Union, Bill Weisband, Tatarka common graves, Purge of the Red Army in 1941, Battle of Kury owka, State Political Directorate, Svirlag, Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees, Operation Jungle, Osvald Group, Polish operation of the NKVD, Litene, NKVD troika, NKVD Order No. 00485, NKVD Order No. 00447, NKVDemon, Sandarmokh, NKVD Order No. 00486, Khaibakh massacre, Lefortovo Prison, Butovo firing range, NKVD units dressed as UPA fighters, NKVD special camp Nr. 7, R zeni Massacre, KGB victim memorials, NKVD Order No. 00439, Mass operations of the NKVD, Special Council of the NKVD, Dem'ianiv Laz, NKVD Order No. 00593, NKVD buildings, NKVD Order No. 00689. Excerpt: The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs," imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. In Russian historiography the period of the most intense purge, 1937-1938, is called Yezhovshchina (Russian: literally, the Yezhov regime), after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, NKVD. In ...
