Why did the executions of “socially harmful elements” increase during the 1930s?
a) Stalin issued ever higher execution quotas and local secret police competed to kill even more victims.
b) Stalin wanted to limit the increases, but did not have enough control over regional rivalries to do so.
Consider This: The Great Purge of 1936–1939 ultimately killed about one million Communist Party members. See 12.2.1: Stalin Takes Control.
c) Local aristocrats took over the secret police in many areas and punished peasants who had spoken against them during the Civil War.
Consider This: The Great Purge of 1936–1939 ultimately killed about one million Communist Party members. See 12.2.1: Stalin Takes Control.
d) The executions increased largely due to roving bands of ex-soldiers, not because of the local authorities.
Consider This: The Great Purge of 1936–1939 ultimately killed about one million Communist Party members. See 12.2.1: Stalin Takes Control.
a) Stalin issued ever higher execution quotas and local secret police competed to kill even more victims.
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