Stalin in Power - Terror and Propaganda (Leaving Cert History): Flashcards

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Stalin in Power - Terror and Propaganda
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Years of the Great Purge

1936-1938

Alternative name for the Great Purge

Great Terror

Soviet secret police during Stalin's rule

NKVD

Main outcome of Great Purge on victims

Thousands executed, millions sent to Gulag

Stalin's labour camp system

Gulag

Remote region where many Gulags were located

Siberia

Year of Stalin's death

1953

Stalin's image as infallible leader campaign

Cult of personality

Movement glorifying workers exceeding targets

Stakhanovite movement

Art style glorifying communist values

Socialist realism

Soviet youth organisations under Stalin

Young Pioneers and Komsomol

Poet who faced repercussions for critical work

Osip Mandelstam

Persecution of wealthier peasants

Dekulakisation

Stalin's rival vilified/erased from records

Leon Trotsky

Atmosphere created by Stalin's terror

Constant surveillance and fear

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