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Yezhov was known as a devout Bolshevik and loyalist of Joseph Stalin, and in 1935 he wrote a paper on Stalinism in which he argued that since political unorthodoxy was impossible in a perfect Communist state ( such as the USSR ), any form of political opposition to Stalinist policies was actually evidence of conspiracy by " disloyal elements " to overthrow the Soviet state, thus requiring violence and state terrorism to " root out " these " enemies of the People "; this became in part the ideological basis of the purges.
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Yezhov and was
The majority of the Central Committee members elected at the 17th Party Congress were killed during, or shortly after, the Great Purge when Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentiy Beria headed the NKVD Grigory Kaminsky, at a Central Committee meeting, spoke against the Great Purge, and shortly after was arrested and killed.
A new version of the film was published in 1938, including a longer sequence to reflect Stalin's " achievements " at the end of the film and leaving out footage with " enemies " of that time, including figures like Nikolai Yezhov, Nikita Khrushchev, Georgi Dimitrov and others.
It was part of the Great Purge, conducted by Nikolai Yezhov after the NKVD Order no.
In September, Beria was appointed head of the Main Administration of State Security ( GUGB ) of the NKVD, and in November he succeeded Yezhov as NKVD head ( Yezhov was executed in 1940 ).
It was at this time that Stalin personally intervened to speed up the process and replaced Yagoda with Nikolai Yezhov.
Until the reorganization begun by Nikolai Yezhov with a purge of the regional political police in the autumn of 1936 and formalized by a May 1939 directive of the All-Union NKVD by which all appointments to the local political police were controlled from the center, there was frequent tension between centralized control of local units and the collusion of those units with local and regional party elements, frequently resulting in the thwarting of Moscow's plans.
The purges were carried out by Stalin's successive police chiefs, Nikolai Yezhov was the chief organiser and Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich and Molotov were intimately involved in the processes.
The Great Purge was started under the NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda, but the height of the campaigns occurred while the NKVD was headed by Nikolai Yezhov, from September 1936 to August 1938, hence the name Yezhovshchina.
This offer was accepted, but when they were taken to the alleged Politburo meeting, only Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov, and Yezhov were present.
It was at this time that Stalin personally intervened to speed up the process and replaced Yagoda with Nikolai Yezhov.
In 1938 he was one of the key figures in bringing about the downfall of Yezhov, the head of the NKVD.
The article was illustrated by a photograph of Stalin with Nikolai Yezhov, himself shortly to vanish and his photographs airbrushed from history by NKVD archivists.
It was widely known as the " Yezhovschina ", the " Reign of Yezhov ".
Yezhov was gradually relieved of power.
Yezhov was relieved of all powers in 1939, then tried and executed in 1940.
According to Simon Sebag Montefiore, " A few days later, as Yezhov buzzed in and out of Stalin's office, a broken Marshal Tukhachevsky confessed that Yenukidze had recruited him in 1928, that he was a German agent in cahoots with Bukharin to seize power.
Stalin, who was awaiting the verdict with Molotov, Kaganovich, and Yezhov, did not even examine the transcripts.
Immediately afterward, Yezhov was summoned into Stalin's presence.
" Yezhov responded, " The snake said he was dedicated to the Motherland and Comrade Stalin.
Stalin, Yezhov, and Marshall Voroshilov orchestrated the arrest and execution of thousands of Soviet military officers after Tukhachevsky was shot.
He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936, and arrested in 1937.
Yezhov and known
The secret police were renamed the NKVD and control given to Nikolai Yezhov, known as the " Bloody Dwarf ".
His reign is sometimes known as the " Yezhovshchina " (, " the Yezhov era "), a term coined during the de-Stalinization campaign of the 1950s.
Stalin's penchant for periodically executing and replacing his primary lieutenants was well known to Yezhov, as he had previously been the man most directly responsible for orchestrating such actions.
NKVD Order № 00593, also known as NKVD Order about Harbinites ( приказ НКВД о харбинцах, (" Харбинский приказ ") by September 20, 1937, undersigned by Nikolai Yezhov regulated arrest and prosecution of former personnel of the China Far East Railway ( KVZhD ) lived in Harbin and reemigrated into the Soviet Union after 1935, when the KVZhD was sold to Manzhouguo.
Yezhov and devout
As a devout Stalinist and not a member of the organs of state security, Yezhov was just the man Stalin needed to intensify the terror and rid Stalin of potential opponents.
Yezhov and Bolshevik
In the " Letter of an Old Bolshevik " ( 1936 ), written by Boris Nicolaevsky, there is this contemporary description of Yezhov:
Yezhov had accomplished Stalin's intended task for the Great Purge: the public liquidation of the last of his Old Bolshevik political rivals and the elimination of any possibility of " disloyal elements " or " fifth columnists " within the Soviet military and government prior to the onset of war with Germany.
Yezhov and Joseph
*" The Commissar Vanishes " – Yezhov airbrushed out of a picture with Joseph Stalin
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov or Ezhov () (; May 1, 1895 – February 4, 1940 ) was the senior figure in the NKVD ( the secret police of the Soviet Union ) under Joseph Stalin during the period of the Great Purge in the 1930s.
For instance, the events surrounding the falls of Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentii Beria are given in considerable detail, as are the events in the Soviet Union leading up to World War II, and Joseph Stalin's reaction to the outbreak of the war.
In 1938 Ivan Grave was arrested under the false accusation of participating in the " Military-Fascist Plot ," but was released in February 1939 after denunciation of " Yezhovshchina " ( the reign of the then NKVD chief Yezhov ) and during campaign against slander by Joseph Stalin's order as a particularly valuable specialist.
Yezhov and Stalin
With few rich or middle-class peasants left to arrest, to satisfy the conviction quotas demanded by Stalin and Yezhov the NKVD terrorized more of the peasantry to induce more denunciations.
File: Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, with Nikolai Yezhov. jpg | Original: Nikolai Yezhov at Stalin ’ s left.
File: The Commissar Vanishes 2. jpg | Censored: Yezhov deleted from Stalin ’ s left.
Stalin made a famous remark to Nikolai Yezhov:
Yezhov and Stalin conferring together
Stalin instructed Yezhov, " See for yourself, but Tukhachevsky should be forced to tell everything ...
However, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union it became clear that Stalin, Kaganovich, and Yezhov had actually concocted Tukhachevsky's " treason " themselves.
According to Orlov, Stalin uncovered the conspiracy and used Yezhov to execute those responsible.
Photo of Yezhov conferring with Stalin.
Destruction of the old bolshevik cadres as well as Yagoda himself — all potential or imagined enemies of Stalin – was not a problem for Yezhov.
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