StalinsTerror

Secret Police

The First Purges 1930 -1933

Cult of Stalin

Reasons For Purges

Results

The Great Purges

OUGP become NKVD in 1934

CHEKA become OUGP in 1924

anyone who opposed indutriliasation

anyone who opposes collectivisation

triggered by murder of kirov

Political opponenets

thosuands arrested, found guilty of treason

at show trails

Army

Commander in chief of red army shot

doezen of general admirals offices executed or in prison

Church

Leaders imprisoneed

Churches closed

Ethnic groups

Russification

Mosques closed

Ordinary peopel

20 million died

arrested sent to gulags

Apperatchiks loyal supporter given new homes

Pictures

Statutes

constant applause

History books change

Whole country

Urgency

Paranoia

Zinoviev Kamenev 1936

Bukharin, Tomsky and Rykov 1938

Orthodox church attacked

Terror and fear

Industry affected - purges

Stalins cult

los of leading army offiicals

Purges

Russification

Twenty million died

Gulag