impact of great terror

Question 1

introduction to impact of great terror

Answer 1

-central agent of great purge arrested and executed in feb 1940
-replaced by beria
-marked end to great terror

Question 2

Trotsky great terror

Answer 2

-exiled in 1929
-settled in Mexico and published anti-stalinist
-previous assassination attempts
-august 20th 1940, murdered with an ice pick

Question 3

responsibility of great terror

Answer 3

-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

Question 4

impact of terror

Answer 4

-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