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Sergei Mironovich Kirov
Sergei Mironovich Kirov , 1888-1934, Russian Soviet leader. He fought in the civil war of 1918-20 and rose to power as one of Stalin's most trusted aides. A member of the Communist party Politburo from 1930, he was secretary of the party at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) when he was assassinated,... Read more |
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev
Lev Borisovich Kamenev , 1883-1936, Soviet Communist leader. His original name was Rosenfeld. He joined (1901) the Social Democratic party and sided with the Bolshevik wing when the party split (1903). Banished (1915) to Siberia for his revolutionary activities, he returned after the February... Read more |
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Kirovohrad
Kirovohrad, Ukraine Yelizavetgrad, Zinovyevsk, Kirovo, Kirovograd A province and a city which was founded as a fortress in 1754. In 1765 it was named ‘Elizabeth's Town’ after Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (1741–62). In 1924–36 it was named after Grigoriy Zinoviev... Read more |
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Jael
Jael , in the Bible, heroine of the time of Deborah. She murdered Sisera, her guest.... Read more |
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murder
murder criminal homicide , usually distinguished from manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought. The most direct case of malicious intent occurs when the killer is known to have adopted the deliberate intent to commit the homicidal act at some time before it is actually committed.... Read more |
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Rechab
Rechab , in the Bible. 1 Eponym of the Rechabites. 2 Murderer of Ish-bo-sheth. 3 Father of a worker on the wall.... Read more |
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Michael (Bible)
Michael in the Bible. 1 Father of Sethur the spy. 2 Chief of Issachar. 3 One of David's captains at Ziklag. 4 Jehoshaphat's murdered son.... Read more |
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Giacomo Matteotti
Giacomo Matteotti , 1885-1924, Italian Socialist leader; the outstanding opponent of the Fascist regime during its early days. He was a member of parliament, and his murder by Fascist hirelings precipitated a parliamentary crisis that Mussolini overcame by disavowing the murder and by tightening... Read more |
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Parricide
PARRICIDE "Murder of the father" is a reference to the murder of the legendary king of Thebes by Oedipus, the Greek hero in Sophocles' play Oedipus Tyrannus (King Oedipus). According to Freud, we were all, as young children, gripped by the "compulsion" embodied in the Greek legend: we were all,... Read more |
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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich
Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (1888–1934) Soviet politician. An effective speaker, he was elected to the Communist Party Politburo in 1930. His murder, probably on Stalin's orders, served as a pretext for the Stalin purges (1934–38). |
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Kirov, Sergei Mironovich
...revolutionary leader. A strong supporter of STALIN, he began his revolutionary activities in...party member, Leonid Nikolayev, possibly at Stalin's instigation. Stalin used Kirov's murder to launch the show trials and party purges... |
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Soviet Union
...were expropriated: by 1932, Stalin could claim to have collectivized...party in these circumstances, Stalin extended his terror in the 1930s. After the murder of his last potential rival, Kirov, in 1934, Stalin reorganized the security ... |
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Kamenev, Lev Borisovich
...s death in 1924 Kamenev, ZINOVIEV, and STALIN formed a triumvirate to exclude Kamenev's...In 1936 he was accused of complicity in the murder of Kirov in the first public show trial of Stalin's great purge, and was shot. |
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Stalinism
...trials subsequent to the Kirov murder. Physical terror and concentration...Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin—with the first three used to elaborate Stalin's own ‘cult of personality...1941, since not only was Stalin shown to be in gross ... |
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Zinoviev, Grigori Yevseevich
...increasingly powerful Stalin and Bukharin. His desperate...Trotsky and Kamenev against Stalin proved futile, and he...the assassination of Kirov, in 1935 he was arrested...for complicity in the murder, and sentenced to ten...show trials which marked ... |
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The Stains Of Stalin; A Fictional Account of the Mysterious Kirov Assassination
...Almost certainly, Stalin had a hand in it, and...revolution, beginning with Kirov's murder, that created the Russia...but now, in "The Kirov Affair," he has written...of Soviet power from Stalin's time to the present... |
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Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery.(Review)
Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin...certainly the murder of Leningrad Communist...chief Sergei M. Kirov on December 1...history. It served Stalin as a pretext for...storyline of the murder has not changed...prescriptions. A speech ... |
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Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle
...notes instead that archival sources prove that Kirov and Stalin were in agreement on all important issues, and...document that corroborates the widely held view that Stalin ordered Kirov's murder. Likewise, Khlevniuk describes Iezhov - the... |
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MASTER OF GENOCIDE; 50 years ago this week, the most evil man in history...
...triggered with the murder of Stalin's closest friend and aide, Sergei Kirov, head of the Communist...who had served Stalin faithfully were...they had helped murder Kirov, or had conspired...to assassinate ... |
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To any length in defense of Stalin. (Robert W. Thurston's defense of Joseph...
...south of the Sahara. Thurston absolves Stalin of complicity in the assassination of Sergey Kirov, his potential rival for leadership...found in the Soviet archives to implicate Stalin in Kirov's murder. Nor has there ever been found in the... |
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Kremlin Committee on Stalin Probing Rival's 1934 Murder
...purged during the reign of Joseph Stalin and is now investigating the murder of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov in 1934, an event that Stalin used as a pretext for his mass...years, the assassination of Kirov has remained a mystery. It... |
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Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle.(Book review)
...initiative and historical accident shaped Stalin's course of action. Although firmly...used by Robert Conquest to indict Stalin for the murder of Sergei Kirov, Khlevniuk validates Conquest's view of Stalin as a puppet master and schemer. ... |
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Soviet Paper Publishes Testimony About Stalin's `Doctors' Plot'
...irons!' " Had it not been for Stalin's death on March 4, 1953...purges in the same way that Stalin used the murder of Sergei Kirov as a pretext for the terror...article notes, a month after Stalin's death, all the arrested... |
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Kirov's Power Unleashed In Shostakovich Work
...For the past week, the Kirov Opera and Orchestra have...Valery Gergiev, the Kirov gave a stunning concert...Sergey, leading her to murder her husband and father...have hit a nerve with Stalin. After seeing part of...classical music, the ... |
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The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life.(Book Review)
The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. By Roman Brackman...German gold, Anastasia, the murder of Kirov, and Stalin's 1941 war plans, to name a few. One of the best known, Stalin's possible employment by the... |
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