Granovsky was the son of a high-ranking Soviet bureaucrat, Mickail Granovsky, who was a victim of the Stalinist Purges of the late 1930s.

After the 1934 assassination of Sergei Kirov, which marked the beginning of the Stalinist Purges, Weil found himself on shaky ground in Moscow and in the Communist party.

He was eventually killed during the Stalinist purges, probably in 1937.

It was he who carried out the Stalinist purges which lasted from 1949 to 1953.

In 1938 he left the party because of the Stalinist purges within the party.

"We saw the use of secret trials more recently in the Stalinist purges.

He was arrested on April 5, 1937, during the Stalinist purges.

Following the arrest of her husband in 1936 during the Stalinist purges, she divorced him the same year and was herself investigated.

Miraculously, the monastery escaped the Stalinist purges because it was made into a museum.

They were victims of the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.

In February 1938, during the Stalinist purges, he was arrested and tortured.

Many were driven out in the Stalinist purges.

Popov studied there until 1937 when he was caught up in the Stalinist purges.

He was forgiven for his mistakes, and was lucky enough to survive the Stalinist purges.

Two lawyers who moved to the Soviet Union later became victims of the Stalinist purges.

Kalinin was executed as an enemy of the state in 1938 during the Stalinist purges.

Jijikhia became victim of the Stalinist purges in 1938.

She also viewed the play as a foreshadowing of the Stalinist purges and was among its harshest critics.

Over 100 of these writers were executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.

It is most pertinent to what is happening at the moment, with references to the Stalinist purges, et cetera.

The monastery went through periods of neglect and prosperity until finally the Stalinist purges of 1937 put it completely out of business.

Susan likened the Stalinist purges to those at IBM.

The Stalinist purges in Mongolia that began in 1937 affected the Republic by killing more than 30,000 people.

When the Stalinist purges removed the leadership of von Mayenburg's division, her assignments stopped coming.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pointed out that those who survived the Stalinist purges were fortunate, peoples with spokesmen.

Other prominent members, such as Eberlein and Süßkind, fell victim to the stalinist purges.

Accused of counterrevolution, he was executed in 1937 at the start of the Stalinist purges in Mongolia (1937-1939).