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
Residents searching 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
Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as the General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar