The Great Terror

8 The Party Crushed

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We are told by a Soviet historian that 90 percent of the members of Provincial and City Committees and Republican Central Committees were liquidated in 1937 and 1938 (Roy Medvedev,

Faut-il rehabiliter Staline?

[Paris, 19691,

_P.

42).

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Also a member of the Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Leningrad Trade Unions.

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The vote had been Menshevik, 640,000; Bolshevik, 24,000. The latter had won no seats at all.

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“List 4” executions included the wives of Kossior, Eikhe, Chubar, and Dybenko (

Pravda

, 3 April 1964).

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Petrovsky and Eilche, though not Postyshev, were included in one list (

Pravda

, 2 November 1937).