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During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression against opposition elements within the Communist Party.
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REPRESSION AND TERROR: STALIN IN CONTROL
During the second half of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin set the
stage for gaining absolute power by employing police repression
against opposition elements within the Communist Party. The
machinery of coercion had
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The murder of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934, set off a chain of events that culminated in the Great Terror of the 1930s.
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REPRESSION AND TERROR: KIROV MURDER AND PURGES
The murder of Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934, set off a
chain of events that culminated in the Great Terror of the 1930s.
Kirov was a full member of the ruling Politburo, leader of the
Leningrad party
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From the beginning of their regime, the Bolsheviks relied on a strong secret, or political, police to buttress their rule.
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From the beginning of their regime, the Bolsheviks relied on
a strong secret, or political, police to buttress their rule.
The first secret police, called the Cheka, was established in
December 1917 as a temporary institution to be abolished once
Vladimir
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The Soviet system of forced labor camps was first established in 1919 under the Cheka, but it was not until the early 1930s that the camp population reached significant numbers.
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The Soviet system of forced labor camps was first
established in 1919 under the Cheka, but it was not until the
early 1930s that the camp population reached significant numbers.
By 1934 the Gulag, or Main Directorate for Corrective Labor
Camps, then under
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In November 1927, Joseph Stalin launched his "revolution from above" by setting two extraordinary goals for Soviet domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
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COLLECTIVIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
In November 1927, Joseph Stalin launched his "revolution
from above" by setting two extraordinary goals for Soviet
domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of
agriculture. His aims were to erase
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The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination of religion.
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The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an
ideological objective the elimination of religion. Toward that
end, the Communist regime confiscated church property, ridiculed
religion, harassed believers, and propagated atheism in the
schools. Actions
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In the years immediately following their accession to power in 1917, the Bolsheviks took measures to prevent challenges to their new regime, beginning with eliminating political opposition.
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ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: EARLY ATTACKS
In the years immediately following their accession to power
in 1917, the Bolsheviks took measures to prevent challenges to
their new regime, beginning with eliminating political
opposition. When the freely-elected
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The pattern of suppressing intellectual activity, with intermittent periods of relaxation, helped the party leadership reinforce its authority.
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ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: RENEWED ATTACKS
The pattern of suppressing intellectual activity, with
intermittent periods of relaxation, helped the party leadership
reinforce its authority. After 1923, when threats to the
revolution's survival had disappeared,
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Creative writers enjoyed great prestige in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union because of literature's unique role as a sounding board for deeper political and social issues.
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ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: CENSORSHIP
Creative writers enjoyed great prestige in both the Russian
Empire and the Soviet Union because of literature's unique role
as a sounding board for deeper political and social issues.
Vladimir Lenin believed that
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The Communist regime considered dissent in the Soviet Union a repudiation of the proletarian struggle and a violation of Marxism-Leninism, and thus a threat to its authority.
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ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: SUPPRESSING DISSIDENTS
The Communist regime considered dissent in the Soviet Union
a repudiation of the proletarian struggle and a violation of
Marxism-Leninism, and thus a threat to its authority. The
proletariat was seen as
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