2.Something that purges, especially a medicinal purgative. 3.An instance of vomiting or of forcing oneself to vomit. [Middle Englishpurgen, from Old Frenchpurgier, from Latinpūrgāre, frompūrus,pure; seepeuə-inIndo-European roots.] ...
In 1988 Byelorussians found out about the purges of Stalin's time in Kuropaty - a forest in the suburbs of Minsk. Demonstrations of people demanding the truth about this massacre initialized the national awaking and the beginning of Belarus' independence in the beginning of the 90sPaźniak...
The Death of Stalin: Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now th
Stalin. New York: The Macmillan company, 1935, p. 280 Western students have applied the word “purge” to everything from political trials to police terror to nonpolitical expulsions from the party. The label “Great Purges,” which encompasses practically all party activities between 1933 and...
Its communism was, if such a paradox is possible, of the liberal kind that deplored Stalin’s trials and purges and was highly critical of the repressive Popular Front. But Moscow denounced the POUM as not merely Trotskyist but as fascist too--it was an arm of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini...
Even at the height of Stalin's purges, when a Soviet citizen tells a story… 我们开头的话不是“很久以前” …we start by saying not "once upon a time…" 而是“在沙皇时代” …"in the good tsarist times…" 敬沙皇时代 To the good tsarist times!
(2014). Stalin's Claws: From the Purges to the Winter War. Red Army Operations Before Barbarossa, 1937–1941, by Hooton, E. R. The Journal of Slavic Military Studies: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 721-722. doi: 10.1080/13518046.2014.963442...
In so doing, the party was continuing a tradition of purges that had begun with the Bolshevik revolution of 1917; in the aftermath of the war and ... ED Cohn - The University of Chicago. 被引量: 0发表: 2007年 TheRoadtoTerror:StalinandtheSelf-DestructionoftheBolsheviks,1932–1939(review...
2.famine- a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death calamity,catastrophe,tragedy,disaster,cataclysm- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a ...
For example, he had two Jewish secretaries, a Jewish head of the NKVD (Genrikh Yagoda) until he was liquidated in the purges of the 1930s, and a close aide-de-camp (Lazar Kaganovich). Kaganovich, who joined with Stalin ... E Drachman - 《Shofar An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish...