Across
- 4. a 'bloc' the accused supposedly belonged to
- 6. Public 'Trial' with predetermined outcome
- 8. Administrators who controlled Party function
- 9. _______ ravens,
- 10. His murder was a pretext for Stalin's purge
- 11. To repudiate someone; blacken reputation
- 13. Political supervisors of production levels
- 14. Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs
- 16. Kirov was the Party Leader in this city
- 18. Soviet labour camp for arrested 'enemies'
- 19. Moscow show trial of Yagoda (head of NKVD)
- 21. 'Wealthy' peasants targeted by terror
- 22. Large enlistment for a specific purpose
- 23. Stalinist history of the CPSU. _____ Course
Down
- 1. A preset number of required arrests
- 2. Supporters of external enemies; ____ Column
- 3. Terror operation against ethnic groups
- 5. 17th Party Congress; 'The Congress of _____'
- 7. The Great _______
- 8. Replaced Yezhov as head of the NKVD in 1938
- 9. Stalin's favoured colour pencil
- 12. Those arrested were declared _______
- 15. Former name of the NKVD
- 17. Army commander; start of Red Army purge
- 20. Party Congress in 1934; beginning of purges