Stalin's great terror?

[Redux]

is that just another name for the Great Purge, or is it a completely separate event?

[DE_Six]

Same thing, also known as "Yezhovshina"

If you ask me, Stalin's entire reign from 1924 to 1953, could be easily qualified of Great Terror.

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/stalin.htm

[Phil642]

Thank you for the link DE6, very interresting indeed!

[aartamen]

Stalin also had an interesting trait of killing off his chiefs of secret police from time to time (2 of 3 IIRC). It's rumoured that the last one did him in. Ezhov was just one of them. People would also blame a particular wave of terror on the freshly executed security chief, not Stalin.

The Repressions were a complex but very traumatic phenomena. There was a period when he was purging the military, or the peasants, intellectuals, his own party. Sometimes there was more of it, sometimes less. 1937 was a particularly horrible year.

[2RHPZ]

Stalin also had an interesting trait of killing off his chiefs of secret police from time to time (2 of 3 IIRC). It's rumoured that the last one did him in. Ezhov was just one of them. People would also blame a particular wave of terror on the freshly executed security chief, not Stalin.

The Repressions were a complex but very traumatic phenomena. There was a period when he was purging the military, or the peasants, intellectuals, his own party. Sometimes there was more of it, sometimes less. 1937 was a particularly horrible year.

Stalin’s Loyal Executioner: People’s Commissar Nikolai Ezhov
1895–1940

by Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov

Online book (http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books/ezhov.html)

Download (http://preterhuman.net/texts/history/Jansen%20Marc%20and%20Petrov%20Nikita%20-%20Stalin’s%20Loyal%20Executioner.pdf) (.pdf 15.7MB)