Category
page 1Persecution of intellectuals in the Soviet Union
Katyn massacre
Soviet mass murder of ca. 22,000 Poles in several parts of European Russia, including in the Katyn forest, which became a pars pro toto name for the whole massacre
Great Purge
Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution (August 1936 - March 1938)
Leningrad Affair
series of criminal cases in the Soviet Union
Night of the Murdered Poets
execution of thirteen Soviet Jews
social parasitism
pejorative that is leveled against a group or class which is considered to be detrimental to society
Philosophers' ships
steamships which transported intellectuals expelled from Soviet Union in 1922; mainly 2 German ships, Oberbürgermeister Haken and Preussen, which transported >160 Russian intellectuals and their families in Sept.–Nov. 1922 from Petrograd to Stettin
Industrial Party Trial
1930 Soviet show trial
1937 mass execution of Belarusians
mass execution in Minsk
suppressed research in the Soviet Union
sciences and research that were banned by the Societ Union
Janis Larri
Soviet children's writer (1900–1977)
Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus
1930-1931 trial of Belarusian intellectuals in the Soviet Union
Academic Trial
Stalin's terror
Aviators Affair
1946 Soviet purge
Ali al-Ghumuqi
Dagestani Islamic theologian and polymath (1878–1943)