Great Purge

Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution (August 1936 - March 1938)

mass execution in Ukraine

series of three trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938 against so-called Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

place of mass executions during Stalinism near Moscow

thumb|The monumental slab at the entrance to the Sandarmokh burial grounds reads: "People! do not kill one another". Sandarmokh (; ) is a forest massif from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where an unknown number, estimated in the thousands, of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. More than 58 nationalities were shot and buried there by the NKVD in 236 communal pits over a 14-month period in 1937 and 1938.

1937-38 Soviet ethnic cleansing of Poles, forced evacuations to Siberia and Gulags

Military court of the Soviet Union

hotel in Moscow

purges in Mongolia

organised mass persecution of the Greeks of the Soviet Union

atrocities of the Soviet Union considered genocides by historians

forest and a memorial cemetery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

Persecution and Genocide of Ingrians in the Soviet Union

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series of political events

Mass arrests and executions of Latvians in the USSR, 1937-38

List of people approved for execution

1935 attempt to assassinate Stalin

show trial in Soviet Union prosecuting many young Germans for being members of the Hitler Youth

soviet mass persecution of repatriates living in North Manchuria