Initially Stalin's leadership was widely accepted, and the doctrine Socialism in One Country became enshrined party policy. Joseph Stalin, the party's General Secretary, would outmaneuver political opponents and ultimately gain control of the Communist Party by 1928. Various established figures in Lenin's government attempted to succeed him. ![]() ![]() įollowing the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 a power vacuum opened in the Communist Party. It occurred from August 1936 to March 1938. The Great Purge or the Great Terror ( Russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 ( 37-ой год, Tridtsat sedmoi god) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to solidify his power over the party and nation the purges were also designed to remove the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky as well as other political rivals within the party. Joseph Stalin, the NKVD ( Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, Lavrentiy Beria, Ivan Serov and others), Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Robert Eikhe and othersĮlimination of political opponents, consolidation of power, fear of counterrevolution, fear of party infiltration (higher estimates overlap with at least 116,000 deaths in the Gulag system)
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