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| | The "Great Purges" Reconsidered by J. Arch Getty |
 | | The new Party leaders thus elected were, on the whole, both younger, and closer to the working class in that they had more recently been workers, than the older generation of Party leaders. |
 | | The Communist Party, in its attempt to industrialize the USSR, to prevent (as they thought) the defeat of the socialist state at the hands of the capitalist powers, largely identified this industrialization with socialism. |
 | | The total number of expulsions from the Party, and thus the maximum number of deaths, as a result of the panicky period of mass arrests which followed the Tukhachevsky trial in June, 1937, was most likely under 100,000, and perhaps far under it. |
| www.plp.org /pl_magazine/purges.html (2021 words) |
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