Great Terror

Great Terror (1936-39)

Statistics based on archival sources, but nonetheless approximate numbers:⁽¹⁾
Executed (1930-53): 786,098
Imprisoned: 3.5 Million
Death in prison and exile: 2 million

Stalin Archive
Moscow Trials (1936): The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre
Execution of the Central Committee
NKVD

⁽¹⁾ The Road to Terror, Getty and Naumov, Yale University Press, 1999. Pages 587-594.