impact of great terror Flashcards
introduction to impact of great terror
-central agent of great purge arrested and executed in feb 1940
-replaced by beria
-marked end to great terror
Trotsky great terror
-exiled in 1929
-settled in Mexico and published anti-stalinist
-previous assassination attempts
-august 20th 1940, murdered with an ice pick
responsibility of great terror
-stalin played key role
-had to gain the most
others:
-other used to advantage personal interest
-economic impact
-as soviet society was disorderly in the 1930, purges may have just been a disconnected series of events rather than planned terror
impact of terror
-society: encouraged climate of fear and mistrust in society
-political: able to successfully eliminate all app to regime, only member of 1917 central committee
-economic impact: slow Econ growth due to labour shortages