Georgy Pyatakov
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Georgy Leonidovich Pyatakov was a Ukrainian revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was a leading Bolshevik in Ukraine during and after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Pyatakov in 1922
Pyatakov after his arrest in 1915
Pyatakov in 1916
The recuperating Vladimir Ulyanov with Georgy Pyatakov, a future leader of the Left Opposition, in Gorky, 1922
Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Georgy Pyatakov
…In October 1935, he chaired the first congress of Stakhanovite workers. Pyatakov's wife was arrested July 1936, during the preliminary stage of the Great Purge. He was in Kislovodsk at the time, but returned to Moscow, and met Stalin and other senior communists, who told him that several former members of the…
Residents searching for relatives among the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev