Labels:text | human face | man | person | poster | clothing | screenshot | flyer OCR: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STALIN'S REIGN Thl OVERVIEW TROTSKY IN EXILE SOVIET UNION INDUSTRIAL REFORMS KEY PLAYERS STALIN'S PURGE TRIALS STALIN'S REIGN Many of Stalin's closest aides become victims of his purges STALIN'S PURGE TRIALS SOVIET In the mid-1930s most of the original Bolshevik leaders INTERESTS were forced to confess to evil crimes and were brutally executed on Stalin's orders. About 80 percent of senior army officers were also killed. These purges removed any remaining threat Stalin saw to his absolute power. CHRONOLOGY .. NEWSFLASH ...
