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Hace 1 día · Deaths: 681,692 executions and 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system (official figures) 700,000 to 1.2 million (estimated): Perpetrators: Joseph Stalin, the NKVD (Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, Lavrentiy Beria, Ivan Serov and others), Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Robert Eikhe and others: Motive: Elimination of political opponents, consolidation of ...
Hace 1 día · History Further information: History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) and Rise of Joseph Stalin Stalinism is used to describe the period during which Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union while serving as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to his death on 5 March 1953. Etymology The term Stalinism came into prominence ...
