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Stalin himself had to establish his rule during years of bloody struggle and, in a sense, the struggle never ended; the latest major Soviet purge took place only a few months before he died. Masters who rule a people by fear are doomed to fear themselves. In this respect, Stalin...
Russia's top leaders probably now have a feeling that they must hang together lest they hang separately. That feeling could last months or years. Yet Malenkov will have to purge, if only to show and prove his power. Malenkov may establish himself as Stalin II; it is also...
At the end of the Civil War, Lenin decided to remove hostile, corrupt and unreliable elements from his organization and created the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, called Rabkrin (to purge the administration), and the Orgburo (to purge the party). Joseph Stalin directed both. Soon he was running the...
Having disposed of the so-called Left opposition, Stalin had no trouble dealing with the Right opposition, Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky, and was then supreme in the Politburo, the real governing body. By virtue of his patronage and purge powers, the General Secretary was able to dominate the Central Committee...
Head Worth $300,000. In Seoul the revolutionaries set up an underground provisional government, named Rhee as first president in absentia. The Japanese began a bloody purge of the nationalists and put a price of $300,000 on Rhee's head. At a conference in Shanghai in 1920 the...