STALIN'S PURGE TRIALS Definition & Meaning

Stalin's purge trials

A group of trials of Soviet officials in the 1930s initiated by the premier , Joseph Stalin . Large numbers of these officials were imprisoned or executed for alleged disloyalty to Stalin. ( See Stalinism .)

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He ascribes the confessions wrung from government leaders at Stalin's purge trials to the work of professional hypnotists recruited under Lenin.

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