History A-Level
Purges and show trials
What Purges and show trials means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The purges of the 1930s, including the show trials (1936–38) and the Great Terror, directed by the NKVD under Yezhov, which removed potential challengers.
Topics that use Purges and show trials
- Communist government in the USSR, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- De-Stalinisation
- Elimination of opponents
- Leadership and control
- Lenin's government
- One-party state
- Party congress and faction ban
- Reform and reaction
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