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Dima Yurasov |
Researched the hidden history throughout his life. He kept index cards of people who had died during the Great Terror and tried to uncover the truth |
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The Great Purge(Great Terror) |
Campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials and no freedom of safety |
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Purge |
Abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place |
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Red Army |
Army and the Air Force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations during Russian Civil War. Beginning in February 25,1946 it embodies the component of the Soviet Armed Forces taking its official name, “Soviet Army” until it’s dissolution in December 1991 |
Established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution |
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Khrushchev’s Secret Speech (February 25,1956) |
Speech was sharply critical of the reign of deceased General Secretary and Premier Josef Stalin. Had charged Stalin with having fostered a leadership personality cult despite maintaining support for the ideals of communism |
“On the cult of Personality and Its Consequences” report made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party |
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Mikahil Suslov |
Soviet statesman during the Cold War. Served as Second Secretary of Communist Party from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue until his death in 1982. Responsible for party democracy and the power separation within the Communist Party. |
One of the foremost anti-reformist Soviet |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
Appointed in 1984, his domestic reforms and nuclear disarmament deals helped end the Cold War but ultimately led to the dramatic downfall of the communism in Europe. |
The last General Secretary and the Soviet Union |
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Leonid Brezhnev |
A communist leader of the Soviet Union who restores Stalinist- type dictatorship thus causing economic stagnation and disproportionate military growth that exhausted the Soviet economy and eventually led to collapse of the Soviet Union |
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