Yezhovschina

Question 1

When was the Yezhovschina?

Answer 1

1936-1938

Question 2

What did the Yezhovschina inscrease

Answer 2

Stalin’s political dominance / personal dictatorship

Question 3

What position was Stalin in by 1938

Answer 3

One of supreme power

Question 4

Give 4 evidences of an intensification of terror

Answer 4

Trial of 16
Trial of 17
Trial of 18
Military purge

Question 5

How many of the officer corps were purged as part of the military purge?

Answer 5

50%

Question 6

How many soldiers were purged

Answer 6

34,000

Question 7

How many war commissars were purged

Answer 7

All 11

Question 8

How many Marshals of the Soviet Union were purged

Answer 8

2

Question 9

How many members were removed from the party between 1936-38

Answer 9

850,000

Question 10

How many recruits since 1920 survive the purges?

Answer 10

Less than a quarter

Question 11

How many party members were convicted of being enemies of the people between 1934-38

Answer 11

330,000

Question 12

What order did Yezhov write up?

Answer 12

NKVD order 00447

Question 13

When was order 00447 passed?

Answer 13

1937

Question 14

What did the NKVD order include?

Answer 14

An arbitrary arrest quota

Question 15

What was the number of the arbitrary arrest quota?

Answer 15

259,450

Question 16

What percentage of the people arrested were to be shot?

Answer 16

28%

Question 17

What would happen to the remainder of those arrested who weren’t shot

Answer 17

8-10 years in the gulags

Question 18

How many had been arrested one month after NKVD order 00447 and how many were sent to gulags

Answer 18

100,000

14,000

Question 19

Give 3 examples of groups targeted

Answer 19

Peasants, burzhui, kulaks

Question 20

What is it important to note?

Answer 20

The majority of the population was not directly targeted

Question 21

What was the quota of people to be shot in Leningrad?

Answer 21

4,000

Question 22

What was the quota of people to be exiled in Leningrad

Answer 22

10,000