Faster access than browser!
139 relations: Active measures, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Yakovlev (Russian politician), Andrei Sakharov, Anti-Soviet agitation, Anti-Sovietism, Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), Balkars, Baltic states, BBC News, Belarus, Bolsheviks, Capital punishment, Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization, Chechens, Cheka, Chemical weapon, Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Class conflict, Collective farming, Collectivization in the Soviet Union, Commonwealth of Independent States, Court-martial, Crimean Tatars, Deportation, Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, Dictatorship of the proletariat, Doctors' plot, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Eastern Europe, Encyclopædia Britannica, Enemy of the people, Era of Stagnation, Estonia, Ethnic cleansing, Europe-Asia Studies, Family members of traitors to the Motherland, Federal Security Service, Forced settlements in the Soviet Union, Geoffrey Hosking, Goli otok, Government of the Soviet Union, Great Purge, Greeks, Gulag, Gulag: A History, History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union, History of the Soviet Union, History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953), ..., Hitler Youth conspiracy, Hostage, Human rights in the Soviet Union, Joint State Political Directorate, Joseph Stalin, Kalmyk deportations of 1943, Kazakhstan, Khrushchev Thaw, Kolkhoz, Kronstadt rebellion, Kulak, Kurapaty, Labor camp, Latvia, Lavrentiy Beria, Law of the Soviet Union, Leninism, Lishenets, Lithuania, Mass killings under communist regimes, Mass operations of the NKVD, Memorial (society), Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia), Minority group, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, NKVD, NKVD prisoner massacres, NKVD troika, October Revolution, Parasitism (social offense), Perestroika, Persecution, Poles in the Soviet Union, Policy Review, Political prisoner, Political repression, Politics of the Soviet Union, Population transfer in the Soviet Union, Post-Soviet states, Psikhushka, Psychiatric hospital, Purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, RBK Group, Red Terror, Rehabilitation (Soviet), Republics of the Soviet Union, Roman Rudenko, Romanization of Russian, Routledge, Russia, Russian Civil War, Russian Federal State Statistics Service, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Secret police, Sergei Kruglov (politician), Sergei Melgunov, Serov Instructions, Siberia, Sluggish schizophrenia, Solovetsky Stone, Soviet Army, Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Soviet dissidents, Soviet famine of 1932–33, Soviet repression in Belarus, Soviet Union, Sovkhoz, Special Council of the NKVD, Stalinism, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Stephen G. Wheatcroft, Summary execution, Sybirak, Tambov Rebellion, Terrorism, The Black Book of Communism, The Gulag Archipelago, The Harvest of Sorrow, Timothy D. Snyder, USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1987), Vladimir Bukovsky, Vorkuta uprising, Wall of Grief, Winston Churchill, World War II, Yakov Sverdlov, Zvezda (magazine). Expand index (89 more) »
Active measures
Active measures (активные мероприятия) is a term for the actions of political warfare conducted by the Soviet and Russian security services (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, KGB, FSB) to influence the course of world events, in addition to collecting intelligence and producing "politically correct" assessment of it.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Active measures · See more »
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · See more »
Alexander Yakovlev (Russian politician)
Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Я́ковлев; 2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet politician and historian.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Alexander Yakovlev (Russian politician) · See more »
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (p; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Andrei Sakharov · See more »
Anti-Soviet agitation
Anti-Soviet Agitation and Propaganda (ASA) (Антисове́тская агита́ция и пропага́нда (АСА)) was a criminal offence in the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Anti-Soviet agitation · See more »
Anti-Sovietism
Anti-Sovietism and anti-Soviet refer to persons and activities actually or allegedly aimed against the Soviet Union or government power within the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Anti-Sovietism · See more »
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (Анто́н Влади́мирович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко; 23 February 1920, Moscow, RSFSR – 9 July 2013, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian historian and writer.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko · See more »
Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927 to arrest those suspected of counter-revolutionary activities.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) · See more »
Balkars
The Balkars (Малкъарлыла, таулула Malqarlıla, tawlula) are a Turkic people of the Caucasus region, one of the titular populations of Kabardino-Balkaria.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Balkars · See more »
Baltic states
The Baltic states, also known as the Baltic countries, Baltic republics, Baltic nations or simply the Baltics (Balti riigid, Baltimaad, Baltijas valstis, Baltijos valstybės), is a geopolitical term used for grouping the three sovereign countries in Northern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Baltic states · See more »
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and BBC News · See more »
Belarus
Belarus (Беларусь, Biełaruś,; Беларусь, Belarus'), officially the Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь; Республика Беларусь), formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia (Белоруссия, Byelorussiya), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Belarus · See more »
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Bolsheviks · See more »
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Capital punishment · See more »
Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
The Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization ("дело троцкистской антисоветской военной организации" or "дело антисоветской троцкистской военной организации", also known as the "Military Case" ("дело военных") or the "Tukhachevsky Case"), was a 1937 secret trial of the high command of the Red Army, a part of the Great Purge.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization · See more »
Chechens
Chechens (Нохчий; Old Chechen: Нахчой Naxçoy) are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples originating in the North Caucasus region of Eastern Europe.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Chechens · See more »
Cheka
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Всероссийская Чрезвычайная Комиссия), abbreviated as VChK (ВЧК, Ve-Che-Ka) and commonly known as Cheka, (from the initialism ChK) was the first of a succession of Soviet secret police organizations.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Cheka · See more »
Chemical weapon
A chemical weapon (CW) is a specialized munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Chemical weapon · See more »
Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies
There was a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies · See more »
Class conflict
Class conflict, frequently referred to as class warfare or class struggle, is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Class conflict · See more »
Collective farming
Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise." That type of collective is often an agricultural cooperative in which member-owners jointly engage in farming activities.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Collective farming · See more »
Collectivization in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union enforced the collectivization (Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 (in West - between 1948 and 1952) during the ascendancy of Joseph Stalin.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Collectivization in the Soviet Union · See more »
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS; r), also nicknamed the Russian Commonwealth (in order to distinguish it from the Commonwealth of Nations), is a political and economic intergovernmental organization of nine member states and one associate member, all of which are former Soviet Republics located in Eurasia (primarily in Central to North Asia), formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Commonwealth of Independent States · See more »
Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Court-martial · See more »
Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars or Crimeans (Crimean Tatar: Qırımtatarlar, qırımlar, Kırım Tatarları, Крымские Татары, крымцы, Кримськi Татари, кримцi) are a Turkic ethnic group that formed in the Crimean Peninsula during the 13th–17th centuries, primarily from the Turkic tribes that moved to the land now known as Crimea in Eastern Europe from the Asian steppes beginning in the 10th century, with contributions from the pre-Cuman population of Crimea.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Crimean Tatars · See more »
Deportation
Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Deportation · See more »
Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, originally conceived in 1926, initiated in 1930, and carried through in 1937, was the first mass transfer of an entire nationality in the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union · See more »
Dictatorship of the proletariat
In Marxist sociopolitical thought, the dictatorship of the proletariat refers to a state in which the proletariat, or the working class, has control of political power.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Dictatorship of the proletariat · See more »
Doctors' plot
The Doctors' plot (дело врачей, "doctors' case", also known as the case of doctors-saboteurs or doctors-killers) was an antisemitic campaign organized by Joseph Stalin.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Doctors' plot · See more »
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Дзеркало тижня; Зеркало недели, Zerkalo Nedeli), usually referred to in English as the Mirror Weekly, is one of Ukraine’s most influential analytical newspapers published weekly in Kiev, the nation's capital.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Dzerkalo Tyzhnia · See more »
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe · See more »
Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Encyclopædia Britannica · See more »
Enemy of the people
The term enemy of the people is a designation for the political or class opponents of the subgroup in power within a larger group.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Enemy of the people · See more »
Era of Stagnation
The Era of Stagnation (Период застоя, Stagnation Period, also called the Brezhnevian Stagnation) was the period in the history of the Soviet Union which began during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982) and continued under Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) and Konstantin Chernenko (1984–1985).
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Era of Stagnation · See more »
Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Estonia · See more »
Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or racial groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Ethnic cleansing · See more »
Europe-Asia Studies
Europe-Asia Studies is an academic peer-reviewed journal published 10 times a year by Routledge on behalf of the Institute of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, and continuing (since vol. 45, 1993) the journal Soviet Studies (vols. 1-44, 1949–1992), which was renamed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Europe-Asia Studies · See more »
Family members of traitors to the Motherland
Traitor of the Motherland family members (Russian: ЧСИР: члены семьи изменника Родины) was a term in Article 58 of Criminal Code of RSFSR about criminal prosecution of wives and children (kin punishment) of all people who were arrested and convicted as "traitors of the Motherland" in the Soviet Union during Stalinist purges of 1930s and later.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Family members of traitors to the Motherland · See more »
Federal Security Service
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB; fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnəjə ˈsluʐbə bʲɪzɐˈpasnəstʲɪ rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjɪ) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the USSR's Committee of State Security (KGB).
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Federal Security Service · See more »
Forced settlements in the Soviet Union
Forced settlements in the Soviet Union took several forms.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Forced settlements in the Soviet Union · See more »
Geoffrey Hosking
Geoffrey Alan Hosking OBE FBA FRHistS (born 28 April 1942) is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College, London.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Geoffrey Hosking · See more »
Goli otok
Goli otok (meaning "barren island"; Isola Calva) is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison in use when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Goli otok · See more »
Government of the Soviet Union
The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russian: Правительство СССР, Pravitel'stvo SSSR) was the main body of the executive branch of government in the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Government of the Soviet Union · See more »
Great Purge
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Great Purge · See more »
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world.. Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people have always been centered on the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age.. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of ancient Greek colonization. The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods. Most ethnic Greeks live nowadays within the borders of the modern Greek state and Cyprus. The Greek genocide and population exchange between Greece and Turkey nearly ended the three millennia-old Greek presence in Asia Minor. Other longstanding Greek populations can be found from southern Italy to the Caucasus and southern Russia and Ukraine and in the Greek diaspora communities in a number of other countries. Today, most Greeks are officially registered as members of the Greek Orthodox Church.CIA World Factbook on Greece: Greek Orthodox 98%, Greek Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%. Greeks have greatly influenced and contributed to culture, arts, exploration, literature, philosophy, politics, architecture, music, mathematics, science and technology, business, cuisine, and sports, both historically and contemporarily.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Greeks · See more »
Gulag
The Gulag (ГУЛАГ, acronym of Главное управление лагерей и мест заключения, "Main Camps' Administration" or "Chief Administration of Camps") was the government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camp system that was created under Vladimir Lenin and reached its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the 1950s.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Gulag · See more »
Gulag: A History
Gulag: A History, also published as Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps, is a non-fiction book covering the history of the Soviet Gulag system.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Gulag: A History · See more »
History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union
The German minority in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union was created from several sources and in several waves.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union · See more »
History of the Soviet Union
The "History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union" reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and History of the Soviet Union · See more »
History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)
The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953 covers the period in Soviet history from establishment of Stalinism through victory in the Second World War and down to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) · See more »
Hitler Youth conspiracy
The Hitler Youth conspiracy was a case investigated by the Soviet secret police, during the Great Purge in the late 1930s.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Hitler Youth conspiracy · See more »
Hostage
A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Hostage · See more »
Human rights in the Soviet Union
Human rights in the Soviet Union were severely limited and the entire population was mobilized in support of the state ideology and policies.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Human rights in the Soviet Union · See more »
Joint State Political Directorate
The Joint State Political Directorate (also translated as the All-Union State Political Administration and Unified State Political Directorate) was the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Joint State Political Directorate · See more »
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin · See more »
Kalmyk deportations of 1943
The Kalmyk deportations of 1943, codename Operation Ulussy, was the deportation in December 1943 of most people of the Kalmyk nationality in the Soviet Union (USSR), as well as Russian women married to Kalmyks.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Kalmyk deportations of 1943 · See more »
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan · See more »
Khrushchev Thaw
The Khrushchev Thaw (or Khrushchev's Thaw; p or simply ottepel)William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 refers to the period from the early 1950s to the early 1960s when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were relaxed, and millions of Soviet political prisoners were released from Gulag labor camps due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization and peaceful coexistence with other nations.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Khrushchev Thaw · See more »
Kolkhoz
A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Kolkhoz · See more »
Kronstadt rebellion
The Kronstadt rebellion (Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) involved a major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921, during the later years of the Russian Civil War.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Kronstadt rebellion · See more »
Kulak
The kulaks (a, plural кулаки́, p, "fist", by extension "tight-fisted"; kurkuli in Ukraine, but also used in Russian texts in Ukrainian contexts) were a category of affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia and the early Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Kulak · See more »
Kurapaty
Kurapaty (Курапаты) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Kurapaty · See more »
Labor camp
A labor camp (or labour, see spelling differences) or work camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment under the criminal code.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Labor camp · See more »
Latvia
Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Latvia · See more »
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (p; tr,; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Lavrentiy Beria · See more »
Law of the Soviet Union
The Law of the Soviet Union was the law as it developed in the Soviet Union (USSR) following the October Revolution of 1917.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Law of the Soviet Union · See more »
Leninism
Leninism is the political theory for the organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party and the achievement of a dictatorship of the proletariat as political prelude to the establishment of socialism.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Leninism · See more »
Lishenets
A lishenets (p), лишение deprivation + -ец -ee; "disenfranchised"; plural lishentsy, лишенцы) was a person stripped of the right of voting in the Soviet Union of 1918–1936. Disfranchisement was a means of repression of the categories of population that were classified as "enemies of the working people". The 1918 Soviet Constitution enumerated the categories of disenfranchised people.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Lishenets · See more »
Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Lithuania · See more »
Mass killings under communist regimes
Mass killings occurred under several twentieth-century Communist regimes.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Mass killings under communist regimes · See more »
Mass operations of the NKVD
Mass operations of the NKVD were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Mass operations of the NKVD · See more »
Memorial (society)
Memorial (Мемориа́л) is a Russian historical and civil rights society that operates in a number of post-Soviet states.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Memorial (society) · See more »
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachev · See more »
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский; – June 12, 1937) was a leading Soviet military leader and theoretician from 1918 to 1937.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Mikhail Tukhachevsky · See more »
Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (MOI, Министерство внутренних дел, МВД, Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del, MVD) is the interior ministry of Russia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia) · See more »
Minority group
A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Minority group · See more »
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact,Charles Peters (2005), Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, New York: PublicAffairs, Ch.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact · See more »
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (НКВД), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and NKVD · See more »
NKVD prisoner massacres
The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions carried out by the Soviet NKVD secret police during World War II against political prisoners across Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was retreating following the Nazi German attack on the Soviet positions in occupied Poland, known as Operation Barbarossa.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and NKVD prisoner massacres · See more »
NKVD troika
NKVD troika or Special troika (особая тройка), in Soviet history, were The People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD which would later be the beginning of the KGB) of three persons who issued sentences to people after simplified, speedy investigations and without a public and fair trial.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and NKVD troika · See more »
October Revolution
The October Revolution (p), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (Вели́кая Октя́брьская социалисти́ческая револю́ция), and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, or the Bolshevik Coup, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and October Revolution · See more »
Parasitism (social offense)
Social parasitism is a pejorative that is leveled against a group or class which is considered to be detrimental to society.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Parasitism (social offense) · See more »
Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s until 1991 and is widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Perestroika · See more »
Persecution
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Persecution · See more »
Poles in the Soviet Union
The Polish minority in the Soviet Union refers to people of Polish descent who used to reside in the Soviet Union before its 1991 dissolution (in the Autumn of Nations), and who live in post-Soviet, sovereign countries of Europe and Asia as their significant minorities at present time, including the Kresy macroregion (Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine), Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan among others.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Poles in the Soviet Union · See more »
Policy Review
Policy Review was a conservative journal from 1977 to 2013.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Policy Review · See more »
Political prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned because they have opposed or criticized the government responsible for their imprisonment.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Political prisoner · See more »
Political repression
Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group within society for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of a society thereby reducing their standing among their fellow citizens.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Political repression · See more »
Politics of the Soviet Union
The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a single-party socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Constitution.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Politics of the Soviet Union · See more »
Population transfer in the Soviet Union
Population transfer in the Soviet Union refers to forced transfer of various groups from the 1930s up to the 1950s ordered by Joseph Stalin and may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of "anti-Soviet" categories of population (often classified as "enemies of workers"), deportations of entire nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite directions to fill the ethnically cleansed territories.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Population transfer in the Soviet Union · See more »
Post-Soviet states
The post-Soviet states, also collectively known as the former Soviet Union (FSU) or former Soviet Republics, are the states that emerged and re-emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup in 1991, with Russia internationally recognised as the successor state to the Soviet Union after the Cold War.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet states · See more »
Psikhushka
Psikhushka (психу́шка) is a Russian ironic diminutive for psychiatric hospital.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Psikhushka · See more »
Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Psychiatric hospital · See more »
Purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union ("Чистка партийных рядов",, "cleansing of the party ranks") were a Soviet ritual in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted to get rid of "undesirables".
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union · See more »
RBK Group
The RBK Group or RosBiznesKonsalting (Группа компаний «РБК» РБК, РосБизнесКонсалтинг) is a large Russian media group headquartered in Moscow.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and RBK Group · See more »
Red Terror
The Red Terror was a period of political repression and mass killings carried out by Bolsheviks after the beginning of the Russian Civil War in 1918.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Red Terror · See more »
Rehabilitation (Soviet)
Rehabilitation (реабилитация, transliterated in English as reabilitatsiya or academically rendered as reabilitacija) was a term used in the context of the former Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet states.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Rehabilitation (Soviet) · See more »
Republics of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics (r) of the Soviet Union were ethnically based proto-states that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Republics of the Soviet Union · See more »
Roman Rudenko
Roman Andriyovych Rudenko (Роман Андрійович Руденко, Рома́н Андре́евич Руде́нко, 30 July 1907 – 23 January 1981) was a Ukrainian Soviet lawyer.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Roman Rudenko · See more »
Romanization of Russian
Romanization of Russian is the process of transliterating the Russian language from the Cyrillic script into the Latin script.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Romanization of Russian · See more »
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Routledge · See more »
Russia
Russia (rɐˈsʲijə), officially the Russian Federation (p), is a country in Eurasia. At, Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 144 million people as of December 2017, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east. Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. The Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and an active global partner of ASEAN, as well as a member of the G20, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as being the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and one of the five members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Russia · See more »
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War (Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossiyi; November 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Russian Civil War · See more »
Russian Federal State Statistics Service
Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Федеральная служба государственной статистики, Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki) (also known as Rosstat) is the governmental statistics agency in Russia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Russian Federal State Statistics Service · See more »
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Ru-Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика.ogg), also unofficially known as the Russian Federation, Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I or Russia (rɐˈsʲijə; from the Ρωσία Rōsía — Rus'), was an independent state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · See more »
Secret police
The term secret police (or political police)Ilan Berman & J. Michael Waller, "Introduction: The Centrality of the Secret Police" in Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), p. xv.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Secret police · See more »
Sergei Kruglov (politician)
Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov (October 2, 1907 – June 6, 1977) was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union from December 1945 to March 1953 and again from June 1953 until January 1956.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Sergei Kruglov (politician) · See more »
Sergei Melgunov
Sergei Petrovich Melgunov (Серге́й Петрович Мельгунов) (December 24 or 25, 1879 – May 26, 1956) was a Russian historian, publicist and politician best known for his opposition to the Soviet government and his numerous works on the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Sergei Melgunov · See more »
Serov Instructions
The so-called Serov Instructions (full title: On the Procedure for Carrying out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) was an undated top secret document, signed by General Ivan Serov, Deputy People's Commissar for State Security of the Soviet Union (NKGB).
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Serov Instructions · See more »
Siberia
Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Siberia · See more »
Sluggish schizophrenia
Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia (вялотеку́щая шизофрени́я, vyalotekushchaya shizofreniya) was a diagnostic category used in Soviet Union to describe what they claimed was a form of schizophrenia characterized by a slowly progressive course; it was diagnosed even in a patient who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Sluggish schizophrenia · See more »
Solovetsky Stone
The Solovetsky Stone is a monument located in Lubyanka Square in Moscow, across from KGB headquarters.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Solovetsky Stone · See more »
Soviet Army
The Soviet Army (SA; Советская Армия, Sovetskaya Armiya) is the name given to the main land-based branch of the Soviet Armed Forces between February 1946 and December 1991, when it was replaced with the Russian Ground Forces, although it was not taken fully out of service until 25 December 1993.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Soviet Army · See more »
Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
The Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place between late 1940 and 1951 and were part of Joseph Stalin's policy of political repression of the potential opposition to the Soviet power (see Population transfer in the Soviet Union).
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina · See more »
Soviet dissidents
Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features in the embodiment of Soviet ideology and who were willing to speak out against them.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Soviet dissidents · See more »
Soviet famine of 1932–33
The Soviet famine of 1932–33 was a major famine that killed millions of people in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Soviet famine of 1932–33 · See more »
Soviet repression in Belarus
Soviet repression in Belarus refers to cases of ungrounded criminal persecution of people in Belarus under Communist rule.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Soviet repression in Belarus · See more »
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Soviet Union · See more »
Sovkhoz
A State farm or Soviet farm (a, abbreviated from советское хозяйство, "sovetskoye khozyaistvo (sovkhoz)"), is a state-owned farm.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Sovkhoz · See more »
Special Council of the NKVD
Special Council of the USSR NKVD (Особое Совещание при НКВД СССР, ОСО) was created by the same decree of Sovnarkom of July 10, 1934 that introduced the NKVD itself.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Special Council of the NKVD · See more »
Stalinism
Stalinism is the means of governing and related policies implemented from the 1920s to 1953 by Joseph Stalin (1878–1953).
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Stalinism · See more »
State Archive of the Russian Federation
The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) (Государственный архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ)) is a large Russian state archive managed by Rosarkhiv (The Federal Archival Agency of Russia), which preserves some official (mostly concerning activity of police) and personal (including archives of some Romanovs imperial family members from early 19th century to 1918) documents on history of the Russian Empire, official documents of the supreme national legislative and executive institutions of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), Soviet Russia as independent state (1917-1922) and as territorial entity of the USSR (1923-1991), Soviet Union (1922-1991), Russian Federation (since 1992) as well as many other sources.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and State Archive of the Russian Federation · See more »
Stephen G. Wheatcroft
Stephen G. Wheatcroft (born 1 June 1947) is professor of the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Stephen G. Wheatcroft · See more »
Summary execution
A summary execution is an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without benefit of a full and fair trial.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Summary execution · See more »
Sybirak
A sybirak (plural: sybiracy) is a person resettled to Siberia.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Sybirak · See more »
Tambov Rebellion
The Tambov Rebellion (historically referred to in the Soviet Union as Antonovshchina), which occurred between 1920 and 1921, was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Tambov Rebellion · See more »
Terrorism
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Terrorism · See more »
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Andrzej Paczkowski and several other European academics documenting a history of political repressions by Communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, killing population in labor camps and artificially created famines.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and The Black Book of Communism · See more »
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago (Архипела́г ГУЛА́Г, Arkhipelág GULÁG) is a three-volume book written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and The Gulag Archipelago · See more »
The Harvest of Sorrow
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine is a book by British historian Robert Conquest, published in 1986.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and The Harvest of Sorrow · See more »
Timothy D. Snyder
Timothy David Snyder (born 1969) is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Timothy D. Snyder · See more »
USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1987)
A new and more aggressive phase of anti-religious persecution in the Soviet Union began in the mid-1970s after a more tolerant period following Nikita Khrushchev's downfall in 1964.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1987) · See more »
Vladimir Bukovsky
From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; b. 30 December 1942) was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well-known at home and abroad.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Vladimir Bukovsky · See more »
Vorkuta uprising
The Vorkuta Uprising was a major uprising of the labor camp inmates at the Vorkuta Gulag in Vorkuta, Russia in July–August 1953, shortly after the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Vorkuta uprising · See more »
Wall of Grief
The Wall of Grief (Стена скорби, Stena skorbi, sometimes translated as Wall of Sorrow) is a monument in Moscow to the victims of political persecution by Joseph Stalin during the country's Soviet era.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Wall of Grief · See more »
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Winston Churchill · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and World War II · See more »
Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (Яков Михайлович Свердлов; 3 June 1885 – 16 March 1919) known by pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov"; was a Bolshevik party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Yakov Sverdlov · See more »
Zvezda (magazine)
Zvezda (Звезда́ "star") is a Russian literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg since 1924.
New!!: Political repression in the Soviet Union and Zvezda (magazine) · See more »
Redirects here:
Political repression in the Soviet union, Soviet political repression, Soviet political repressions, Soviet repressions.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_Soviet_Union
