The Great Purge

  1. AmericanCommie421
    AmericanCommie421
    What are peoples thoughts here on the great purge, from about 1936-1938?
  2. Born in the USSR
    It was a final act of a civil war in Russia.
  3. Comrade_Stalin
    Comrade_Stalin
    What are peoples thoughts here on the great purge, from about 1936-1938?
    Some see it as a the next step in the red terror found by Lenin
  4. Rodrigo
    Rodrigo
    And others see it not as "terror", but a necessary purification, cleaning the party from rightists and opportunists. It was smaller than the first purification ever in the Communist Party, which was in 1921 or close to. And others see it as the initial movement of revisionism inside the party, an action without the consent of Stalin, who was surprised with the purges of some people.
  5. Comrade_Stalin
    Comrade_Stalin
    And others see it not as "terror", but a necessary purification, cleaning the party from rightists and opportunists. It was smaller than the first purification ever in the Communist Party, which was in 1921 or close to. And others see it as the initial movement of revisionism inside the party, an action without the consent of Stalin, who was surprised with the purges of some people.
    That was the point of the red terror, to clear rightists and opportunists from the USSR.
  6. mrmikhail
    The Great Purge was merely Stalin's move to eliminate the allies of Trotsky and others who posed a real threat to his power, it left his army severely depleted in terms of leadership and created a system of fear of anyone close to the party and the intelligentsia. Not that it didn't have it's positives, his elimination of his heads of aviation design companies led to fresh new ideas which revolutionised the industry, but this aside the purge was nothing more than an act of fear of those who knew the true Stalin.