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2 days ago · The purge reached its peak between September 1936 and August 1938 under the leadership of Nikolai Yezhov, hence the name Yezhovshchina. The campaigns were carried out according to the general line of the party, often by direct orders of the politburo headed by Stalin.
1 day ago · In 1936, Nikolai Yezhov became head of the NKVD. Stalin orchestrated the arrest of opponents in the Communist Party as well as sitting members of the Central Committee: denounced as Western-backed mercenaries, many were imprisoned or exiled internally.
2 days ago · Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
4 days ago · A collection of translated documents originally published in the journal Istochnik, Dokumenti Ruskoi Istorii, 2003, No. 6; prepared with financial support from CWIHP. Author: William Taubman is Chairman of the CWIHP advisory board and professor of history at Amherst College. His book, Khrushchev ...
3 days ago · That same month, Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB, signed arrest orders for every member of Skatuve: 32 people, including 22 actors and actresses, five stage hands, two directors, one stage director, one general director and a secretary.
3 days ago · Under Nikolai Yezhov, the NKVD carried out the Great Purge: the imprisonment or execution of a huge proportion, possibly over a million, of citizens throughout the Soviet Union as alleged "enemies of the people".
5 days ago · It is about the Stalin regime, the Stalin's "falcon" Nikolai Yezhov and his people's degrading treatment and abuse of Qazaq peasants, how they tried to bend over their backwards to reveal the enemies of the regime, making lists of people to be shot.
