Communist party + denunciations responsibility for purges

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Communist party members

involved in executions

  • Zhdanov = 176 execution lists

  • Molotov = 372 execution lists

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Molotov execution list count

372

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Zhdanov execution list count

176

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counterargument to Communist party members being involved in executions

1937-38

  • Stalin signed 357 execution lists of 40,000

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denunciations (self-perpetuating)

  • people wanted managerial / colleague’s positions so would implicate

  • citizens encouraged to report

    • demonstrate loyalty to regime

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counterargument to denunciations

without climate of fear Stalin created, denunciations wouldn’t have happened