Great Purge

English

Proper noun

the Great Purge

  1. (Soviet Union, historical) A campaign of extensive political purge and repression from 1936 to 1938, led by Joseph Stalin and executed by the NKVD to purge his political opponents.

Synonyms

  • Great Terror
  • Yezhovshchina
  • Yezhov Era

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