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| Question | Answer |
| What two things happened in Stalin's life during 1931-32? | Some Communist Party members criticised him and his wife committed suicide |
| Who started gaining support in 1934? | Sergei Kirov, Party leader in Leningrad |
| When Kirov was assassinated, what did Stalin claim? | It was evidence of a Trotskyite plot |
| What did he use this as an excuse to do? | Purge the party |
| What did he want to become? | The last of the Old Bolsheviks |
| How many Party members did the NKVD round up? | Thousands including their neighbours, relatives and acquiantances |
| What was done with most of them? | They were put in slave labour camps |
| Where did Stalin organise the show trials? | Moscow |
| Who went on trial in August 1936? | Some party members including Zinoviev and Kamenev |
| Who was the state prosecutor? | Vyshinsky |
| What did he accuse them of? | Killing Kirov, plotting to kill Stalin and Lenin and conspiring with Trotsky |
| What had occurred months before? | Physical and psychological torture and family threats |
| What happened at the trial? | They all were accused guilty and sentenced to death and executed at once |
| How did foreign observers react to the first trial? | They were convinced the men received a fair trial and sentence |
| When did the second show trial begin? | January, 1937 |
| Who were put on trial? One name | 17 Bolsheviks. Karl Radek |
| Why did Radek get sent to labour camp where he died? | He implicated others |
| What did Stalin fear? | The Red Army's power |
| Who was arrested, tried and shot in secret in 1937? | Marshal Tukhachevsky |
| What did this do to the Red Army? | Weakened it greatly whilst Hitler was threatening USSR |
| When did the Great Show Trial take place? | March 1938 |
| Who were on trial? | A critic of Stalin, Bukharin, and Yagoda who was head of NKVD |
| What were they accused of? | Spying, sabotage, working with Trotsky and Hitler |
| What did Bukharin do? | Insist innocence until his baby and wife were threatened |
| Why did he confess? | Stalin promised not to harm them |
| What did Stalin eventually do? | Sent Yagoda's wife to a labour camp |
| How many men in total were brought up before the Show Trials? How many were executed? | 54 47 |
| How many were arrested? | About 5 million |
| What did Stalin do after the second world war? | Reopened labour camps and continued purging |
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