Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The deaths of 5.7 [26] to perhaps 7.0 million people [27] [28] in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet collectivization of agriculture are included among the victims of repression during the period of Stalin by some historians.
Many of those arrested after Kirov's murder, high-ranking party officials among them, also confessed plans to kill Stalin themselves, albeit often under duress. [32] The validity of these confessions is debated by historians, but there is consensus that Kirov's death was the flashpoint at which Stalin decided to take action and begin the purges.
Joseph Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin supports a similar view, stating that while "there is no question of Stalin's responsibility for the famine" and many deaths could have been prevented if not for the "insufficient" and counterproductive Soviet measures, there is no evidence for Stalin's intention to kill the Ukrainians deliberately. [146]
All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald. * September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace. Aeroflot Flight 6833 Hijacking: 1983, November 18 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR to Leningrad: 8
His operatives ambushed the convoy in Erivansky Square with guns and home-made bombs; around 40 people were killed. [59] Stalin settled in Baku with his wife and son, [60] where Mensheviks confronted him about the robbery and voted to expel him from the RSDLP, but he ignored them. [61]
Stalin “killed systematically rather than episodically,” the Stanford historian Norman Naimark has observed. An elderly woman passes a house shelled by Russians in the village of Krasylivka ...
Although many people were victims of the purge throughout this decade, the general Soviet public was not aware of the purge until 1937. [ 3 ] Although the term " purge " is largely associated with Stalinism because the greatest of the purges happened during Stalin's rule , the Bolsheviks carried out their first major purge of the party ranks as ...
Joseph Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths. Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.