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  • and worked as a war reporter during the Great Patriotic War. Later he turned ... Writers Union of the USSR. During the Great Purges some of his friends and ...
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  • especially during the period of the Great Purges. It was also also used ... a series of purges, known as the Great Purges were used to denote the ...
    44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
  • priests and former nobles and supported by Great Britain began in the spring ... calling for administrative and political purges, a low, fixed price for bread ...
    11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
  • in Korea and the father of King Sejong the Great, did not take the throne ... earning him the title King Sejong the Great of Joseon. ...
    13 KB (1,835 words) - 19:15, 24 October 2022
  • dissident community, many of whom suffered great consequences for their protest. ... many of his friends disappeared in the purges, he managed to survive, returning ...
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  • The political expression was the Great Purges, which would cost Kharms ... the school set up by Tsar Peter the Great for the children of German ...
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  • Mikhail Tukhachevsky, in June 1937. The Great Purges began with Old Bolshevik ... considered one of the key trials of the Great Purges. Tukhachevsky and the ...
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  • murder and repression during Stalin's Purges, and the Polish massacres ... bury the hatchet and recognize Kazan's great artistic accomplishments—Arthur ...
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  • quot;Now they will come for me." (See the Great Purges). In May 1939, he was arrested at his cottage in Peredelkino, and eventually interrogated ...
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  • during this period, it freely executes and purges its own members in order ... a massive and scholarly biography of the great Montenegrin prince-poet-priest ...
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  • stridently anti-Soviet after the Great Purges of Stalin. criticism, Trilling is viewed as one of the great literary critics of the twentieth ...
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  • The great-grandson of Hasidism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov, ... where the townspeople received him with great honor. However, according ...
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  • vacationing in Crimea, the effects of the Great Famine, a result of Stalin ... , but in 1937, at the outset of the Great Purges, the literary establishment ...
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  • agriculture in the early 1930s, and the Great Purges, during which he signed ... the assassination and the start of the Great Purges, there was a significant ...
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  • Over the next two centuries, several additional violent purges are ... Despite these purges, it remained in practice both in Israel and Judah ...
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  • category:Image wanted Hellman, Lillian {{Infobox Writer | name = Lillian Hellman | image = | imagesize = | caption = ...
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  • was also executed during the murders and purges of the Hiki clan, because ... in fear at this, because they were in great awe of the Imperial court ...
    16 KB (2,515 words) - 16:09, 25 January 2023
  • that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or ... interpret catharsis as an experience which purges and cleanses the spectators ...
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  • of the final stages of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. He was ... of internal affairs, Beria wielded great power, and he was the first ...
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  • from his post, accused of spying for Great Britain, and was executed ... and external operations during the Great Purges, such as the conviction ...
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