Yezhovschina

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Across
  1. 6. the term 'class enemies' changed to '... enemies'
  2. 8. in 1937, a large...minority was deported from the Far East to Central Asia when war with Japan threatened
  3. 11. who was murdered in Mexico in 1940
  4. 13. system of torture used whereby a victim was passed from one interrogator to another
  5. 16. former members of other political parties or 'gypsies' were said to belong to...
  6. 18. Out of all the accused (Bukharin,Rykov,Tomsky and Yagoda) who was the only person to avoid the trial of 21 by committing suicide?
  7. 21. How many party members had been purged by the end of 1938?
  8. 23. In June 1937, Osip..., member of the CC,spoke out against the purges and soon evidence was 'unearthed' of him being an agent of the Tsarist secret police
  9. 28. In 1941, over 400,000..were deported to Siberia and Central Asia
  10. 29. A key moment for the institutionalisation of terror may have been the suicide of Stalin's wife,.... ,in 1932
  11. 30. In which month of 1938 was the Trial of 21?
  12. 31. mortality rate for inmate workers was up to...times higher than urban workers
  13. 32. numbers of...rose from 800,000 in 1935 to 5.5 - 9.5 million in 1938
  14. 33. in which month in 1937 did Stalin issue NKVD order 00447
  15. 35. How many Jews were incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939/40 leading to purges of rabbis and religous leaders
  16. 36. Terror was economically useful because it provided..
Down
  1. 1. from 1937, gulag inmates were no longer deemed capable of...
  2. 2. industry was deprived of... like teachers and engineers because of the purges
  3. 3. within one month of order 00447,...thousand had been arrested
  4. 4. At the trial of 21, the old bolsheviks were accused of plotting to kil...in 1918
  5. 5. around a...of the imprisoned military was reinstated by the middle of 1940
  6. 7. Marshal.. and Yan Gamarik were arrested in May 1937 and executed in June 1937
  7. 9. in which month of 1937 did the trial of 17 take place?
  8. 10. Stalin argued much of the Terror was because of...officials
  9. 12. in the trial of 17, prominent communists were accused of plotting with..
  10. 14. Approximately...percent of the officer corps were executed or imprisoned during the military purges
  11. 15. there was an estimated one informant for every...inhabitants
  12. 17. Stalin used who as a scapegoat for the extent of the Great Terror
  13. 19. phrase used to describe the Terror as having a life of its own.
  14. 20. it was easy to obtain Yezhov's personal approval to exceed..
  15. 22. the red army increased from 1 million in 1936 to....in 1941 in preparation for WW2
  16. 24. by 1939, less than...percent of the party had joined before 1920
  17. 25. ...and Germans were deported from the Western borders
  18. 26. up to...military officials were shot 1937-8 for refusing to approve the execution of innocents
  19. 27. Bukharin 'confessed' after three months because of threats towards his...
  20. 34. there was a direct persecution of...in Central Asia after 1928 as Stalin's anti-religious campaign
  21. 36. ordinary people benefitted from being able to...their managers under the purges