The murder of ____, boss of the Communist Party in Leningrand triggered the Great Terror in 1934. Kirov was a popular member of the party and Stalin, becoming increasingly ____ about his control of the party, wished to remove any threat. Kirov was almost certainly ____ on Stalin’s orders. He then used the murder as evidence that there were traitors everywhere and began a ____ against any potential enemies inside or outside the Communist Party. This was a new type of ____ in which the boundaries of those targeted were practically non-existent. Any stain on the record, including mere association with a perceived enemy, brought one under suspicion of the ____. "____ of the people'' were charged with treason, wrecking, espionage and more. The purge, in essence, was a brutal political campaign led by Stalin to ____ dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat. The NKVD used brutal ____ methods and terror propagated itself: accused people under torture would name names, leading in turn to more arrests. Most people arrested were shot or sent to the ____. It was during the Great Terror that Stalin held the infamous ____. Stalin’s desire to consolidate power in the aftermath of internal party support of Kirov triggered the ____. They were ____ trials, designed to portray defendants as ‘enemies of the people’, that allowed Stalin to ____ the Communist Party of old enemies and ____ the “Great Terror” to the Soviet people. The defendants in each of the trials were accused of incredible crimes including plotting to ____ Stalin, spying for Germany and being part of a Trotskyite conspiracy. The key to the success of the trials were the ‘____’ of the defendants that the NKVD collected using ____. Foreign ____ and diplomats were invited to attend the trials, giving them an air of credibility and the proceedings were widely publicised at home and abroad for a maximum audience. The defendants in the first trial, the Trial of the 16, were mostly high ranking old ____ including Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, two old rivals of Stalin. They ____ their guilt, implicated others in their evidence raising the prospect of further trials, were found guilty and ____. Soviet newspapers and messages from factories and collectives throughout the country ____ the executions and demanded more purges of counter-revolutionaries.

Stalin - The Great Terror and the Show Trials

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