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Bookmark or Share- Great Purge | History & Facts | BritannicaLeon Trotsky. Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda. (Show more) Great Purge, three widely publicized show trials and a series of closed, unpublicized trials held in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned.
- NKVD - WikipediaIt was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. [5] [6] [7] The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions of citizens, and conceived, populated and administered the Gulag system of forced labor camps. Their agents were responsible for the repression of the wealthier peasantry. [8]
- Genrikh Yagoda - WikipediaGenrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, tr. Genrikh Grigor'yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936.
- Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda | NKVD chief, secret police chiefGreat Purge. Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (born 1891, Łodz, Pol., Russian Empire—died March 15, 1938, Moscow) was the head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin from 1934 to 1936 and a central figure in the purge trials. Yagoda joined the Bolsheviks in 1907 and became a member of the presidium of the Cheka (Soviet secret police) in 1920.
- Yagoda, Genrikh Grigorevich | Encyclopedia.comYAGODA, GENRIKH GRIGOREVICH. (1891 – 1938), state security official, general commissar of state security (1935). Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda was a native of Rybinsk, the son of an artisan and the second cousin of the revolutionary leader Yakov Sverdlov, to whose niece he was married.
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