The Great Terror (jan 1, 1934 – jan 1, 1938)

Description:

- Consolidate power
- Enforce Party discipline
- Created a series of PURGES to remove his
enemies and any opposition
- Period of SHOW TRIALS, arrests and interrogation, police surveillance and executions

- Show trials got rid of political opponents such as Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin
- Many confessed to crimes they did not commit and executed after being tortured or family threatened
- Secret Police forced people to inform on their friends and family
- Many were killed/arrested/sent to labour camps (GULAGS) where they died from poor conditions

By 1937, around 40 million people have died

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