Great Purge, also called purge trials, three widely publicized show trials and a series of closed, unpublicized trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned. The king and his family took refuge and escaped harm. However the king's Swiss guard tried to stop the national guard and were massacred.The Legislative Assembly then declared that the king was suspended.

Reign of Terror, period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794, during which the Revolutionary government decided to take harsh measures against those suspected of being enemies of the Revolution (nobles, priests, and hoarders).

… loyalists, a new wave of purges during 1936–38 halved the CP(B)U’s membership, while 99 of 102 members of the party’s Central Committee were shot.

…series of public, or publicized, trials, and in a massive terror operation against the population as a whole.…





All the evidence presented in court was derived from preliminary examinations of the defendants and from their confessions.

The first political prisoner was guillotined on 21 August.Then, in September 1792, massacres of political prisoners took place.





At the third trial (March 1938), the prosecution suggested that the Zinovyev–Trotsky In addition to the so-called show trials, a series of closed trials of top Soviet military leaders was held in 1937–38, in which a number of prominent military leaders were eliminated; the closed trials were accompanied by a massive purge throughout the Soviet armed forces.



Years were no longer counted from the birth of Christ.



In September 1793 a movement called De-Christianization began. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.

ROBESPIERRE AND THE GREAT TERROR DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.






Finally in March 1793 the Vendee and parts of Brittany rose in revolt.

2 In this essay we discuss briefly the intelligence activity of Poland and Japan against the Soviet Union and their collaboration. Postyshev and Kosior were removed from their party posts and subsequently executed.

Kangaroo courts were set up and thousands of people were killed.







In late 1934—just when the worst excesses of Stalinism seemed to have spent themselves—the Secretary General launched a new campaign of political terror against the very Communist Party members who had brought him to power; his pretext was the assassination, in Leningrad on December 1,…


The Background to the Great Terror. Furthermore thousands of prisoners were released.

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The trials successfully eliminated the major real and potential political rivals and critics of The second trial opened in January 1937, after N.I. Instead they began on 22 September 1792, the first day of the republic.

At that time the Prussian army was advancing into France. The new government, the National Convention, abolished the monarchy.

Common terms and phrases. In December 1793 Captain Napoleon Bonaparte recaptured Toulon.Many Jacobins were deists or atheists and were bitterly opposed to Christianity.