Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof]; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret...

the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. It was led by Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrentiy Beria. The NKVD undertook mass extrajudicial executions...

Purge. He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in 1936 and arrested in 1937. Charged with crimes of wrecking, espionage...

(37-й год, Tridtsat sedmoy god) and the Yezhovshchina (Ежовщина, 'period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate...

Stalin's Great Purge, which had been carried out by previous NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Beria was responsible...

geneticist Nikolai Volkoff (1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge Nikolai Zherdev...

purges was a Commissar called Nikolai Yezhov, a fervent Stalinist and a believer in violent repression. Nikolai Yezhov continued to expand the lists of...

Bulanov knew Nikolai Yezhov well, with whom he had friendly relations, and remained the secretary of the NKVD for a time after Nikolai Yezhov became head...

Several prominent figures (such as Andrei Bubnov, Alexander Beloborodov, Nikolai Yezhov) were sentenced to death during the Stalin era outside these trials...

Orlov Sergei Shpigelglas Nikolai Yezhov Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov, Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, Hoover Institution...