Persecution of ethnic minorities (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Persecution of ethnic minorities
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Number of republics in Soviet Union

15

% of Soviet population that was Russian

55%

Stalin's early Soviet role

Commissar for Nationalities

Stalin's ethnic origin

Georgia

Year Soviet Union was established

1922

Bolshevik term for worker unity over ethnicity

Internationalist approach

Years of famine in collectivised regions

1932-33

Term for putting ethnic identity ahead of Soviet citizenship

Bourgeois nationalism

Soviet secret police organisation (acronym)

NKVD

People executed for ethnicity in 1937-38

Approximately 250,000

Soviet Koreans relocated to Kazakhstan (1937-38)

170,000

Ethnic group deported to Siberia in 1941

Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Germans

Western ethnic groups targeted in 1935-36

Finnish, German, and Polish communities

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