English Explanatory Dictionary

Great Purge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A campaign of extensive political purge and repression from 1936 to 1938, led by Joseph Stalin and executed by the NKVD to purge his political opponents.

Word forms

Great Purge the Great Purge

Synonyms

Great Terror Yezhovshchina Yezhov Era
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