During the 1930s, the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Joseph StalinStalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, dictator and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Read More, experienced a wave of repression and terror that came to be known as the Great Terror.
This period saw the widespread use of secret police, forced labor camps, and executions to suppress perceived threats to the regime.
We’ll be examining the causes and consequences of the Great Terror, and exploring how it impacted Soviet society and the lives of ordinary people.
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