The Great Terror

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, The Great Terror has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Rest Is History (Nov 2025). The Great Terror is mentioned in the context of its impact on the Red Army's effectiveness during the Winter War.

The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1939. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected dissenters from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.