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Add new Web site: ScholarWorks at GVSU - Certainty, Probability obability, and Stalin, and Stalin’s Great Party Purge (PDF). Jan 14, 2025
Add new Web site: International Center For MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma - Stalin's Purge and Its Impact on Russian Families (PDF). Dec 07, 2024
Add new Web site: PDXScholar - Death and Vengeance Behind Every Corner: The Great Purge and the Psychology of Joseph Stalin. Sep 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Open Washington Pressbooks - In Solidarity, - The Great Purge. Aug 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Seventeen Moments in Soviet History - The Great Terror. May 09, 2024
Anniversary information added. Mar 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Purges. Feb 16, 2024
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - The Purges in the USSR. Sep 08, 2023
Links added. Jul 28, 2023
Link added. Jun 08, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - 1937-1939 - The Great Terror. Oct 27, 2022
Media added. Jan 03, 2020
Changed article title from "purge trials" to "Great Purge." Apr 02, 2019
Changed "Maksim Gorky" to "Maxim Gorky." Mar 10, 2017
Add new Web site: Russipedia - Of Russian origin: Stalin's Purges. Mar 31, 2016
Add new Web site: Academia - The Great Purge. Mar 31, 2016
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - The Great Purge. Mar 31, 2016
Added new Web site: MacroHistory - Purges and Hysteria in the Soviet Union. May 13, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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