Terror

• Cheka
• GPU (State Political Administration)
• OGPU (Combined State Political Administration)
• bureaucracy
• show trials
• Shakhty Trial
• purges
• self-criticism (samokritika)
• 17th Party Congress, 1934: "Congress of Victors"
• Sergei Kirov AND HIS MURDER
• NKVD
• Genrikh Yagoda
• "On the Terrorist Acitivties of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Counter-Revolutionary Bloc"
• Nikolai Ezhov (Yezhov)
• 1937-8: Great Purge
• political figures
• kulak operations
• national operations
• Lavrentii Beriia