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18 matches to Purge
Blood Purge. 1934. Hitler’s murder of 74 Nazi radicals.
Bukharin, Nikolay. 1888-1938. Russian Bolshevik. Shot in Stalin’s Purge. Rehabilitated 1988.
Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.
Deng Xiaoping. 1902-97. Chinese Communist leader 1973~. Purged by Mao, rehabilitated. Tiananmen.
Kamenev, Lev. 1883-1936. Russian Bolshevik leader in Triumvirate with Stalin, Zinoviev, 1922-. Executed in Purge.
Kao Kang. 1902-55. Chinese Communist leader. Purged 1954. Suicide.
Leningrad Affair. 1948. Purge of Zhdanov associates by Stalin.
Northern Expedition. 1926-8. Kuomintang unify China, purge Communists.
Pride’s Purge. 1648. Removal of 143 Presbyterian royalists from Parliament. Rump Parliament.
Purge. 1936-8. Stalin’s trials to eliminate political rivals with fabricated charges. 3 million dead. Executions, forced labour, internal exile.
Radek, Karl. 1885-1939. Russian. COMINTERN leader, propagandist. Purged.
Rump Parliament. 1648-60. After Pride’s Purge.
SA. 1921-34. Brownshirts. Nazi force for breaking up rival party meetings. Purged on Night of Long the Knives.
Slansky Trial. 1952. Jewish Czech communists purged during Stalin anti-semitism. Those executed were restored to party membership 1968.
Stalin, Joseph. 1879-1953. Soviet bloodthirsty revolutionary. Leader 1924-. 5 Year Plans modernized Russia. 1928 Collectivization. 1932- Dictator. 1936-8 Purge. Turned Marxism to Nationalism and Imperialism. World Socialist Revolution under USSR. 1952 abolished Politburo.
Vyshinsky, Andrei. 1883-1954. Russian statesman, prosecutor for Purge trials.
Yezhovshchina. 1936-8. Stalin’s Purge led by NKVD chief Yezhovshchina.
Zinoviev, Grigori. 1883-1936. Russian triumvir with Stalin, Kamenev 1919-26. Executed in Purge. COMINTERN chairman 1919-.