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• Purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — The first major purge of the Communist Party ranks (or simply purges, ru. чистка – cleansing ) was performed by Bolsheviks as early as 1921. About 220,000 members were purged or left the party in 1921. The purge was justified by the necessity to… …   Wikipedia

• purge — [c]/pɜdʒ / (say perj) verb (purged, purging) –verb (t) 1. to cleanse; rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; purify. 2. to eliminate, as by killing, an unwanted person, as a political opponent or potential opponent. 3. to clear (a person,… …  

• Great Purge — ( ru. Большая чистка, transliterated Bolshaya chistka ) was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1937 1938. Orlando Figes The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin s… …   Wikipedia

• Second Stadtholderless Period — The Second Stadtholderless Period or Era ( nl. Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk) is the designation in Dutch historiography of the period between the death of stadtholder William III on March 19 [This is the date from the Gregorian calendar that… …   Wikipedia

• First Stadtholderless Period — The First Stadtholderless Period or Era (1650 1672) (Dutch Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk ) is the period in the history of the Dutch Republic in which it reached the zenith of its economic, military and political Golden Age. The term has… …   Wikipedia

• Ansei Purge — The Ansei Purge (安政の大獄 Ansei no taigoku ) was a purge, in 1858 and 1859, of over 100 people from the bakufu, various han, and the Japanese Imperial court. [In the name Ansei Purge, the noun Ansei refers to the nengō (Japanese era name) after Kaei …   Wikipedia

• Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy — Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy is the title of a large collection of songs by Thomas d Urfey, published between 1698 and 1720, which in its final, six volume edition held over 1,000 songs and poems. The collection started as a single …   Wikipedia

• Interwar period — The interwar period (1918 1939) is understood within Western culture to be the period between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War. This is also called the period between the wars or interbellum.This period was …   Wikipedia

• blood purge — noun : the elimination en masse by massacre or execution of individuals considered to constitute an untrustworthy or undesirable element within a party or movement * * * the mass execution, esp. by a government, of persons considered guilty of… …   Useful english dictionary

• Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) — The Khmer Rouge from 1975 until 1979 when Cambodia was ruled by the government of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party the official name of the country was Democratic Kampuchea ( km. កម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ, French: Kampuchea démocratique , Vietnamese …   Wikipedia

• Thomas Scot — Early life The earliest fact known about Thomas Scot is that in 1626 he got married to Alice Allinson of Chesterford in Essex. He was a lawyer in Buckinghamshire who grew to prominence as the treasurer of the region’s County Committee between… …   Wikipedia