Soviet political repressions

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Mask of Sorrow monument in the Russian Far Eastern city of Magadan, in memory of the Gulag prisoners that died in the Dalstroi labor camps

Soviet political repressions was a de facto and de jure system of prosecution of people who were or perceived to be enemies of the Soviet system. From the beginning its theoretical basis were the theory of Marxism about the class struggle and the resulting notion of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its legal basis was formalized into the Article 58 in the code of RSFSR and similar articles for other Soviet republics.

The term "repression", "terror", and other strong words were normal working terms with respect to the internal politics of the early Soviet state, reflecting the fact that the dictatorship of the proletariat was supposed apply ruthless force to suppress the resistance of the social classes which Marxism considered antagonistic to the class of proletariat. This phraseology was gradually abolished after destalinization, but the system of persecution for political views and activities remained until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Main article: Red Terror

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Main article: Collectivization in the USSR

[edit] Great Terror

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[edit] Post-Stalin era (1953-1991)

[edit] See also

• rehabilitation (Soviet)
• Human rights in the Soviet Union
• Soviet political system
• Soviet law

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