Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric...

Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or...

seriously by the Communist authorities.: 117  Human rights activists in the Soviet Union were regularly subjected to harassment, repressions and arrests...

= State Political Directorate (also State Political Administration) under the People's Commissariat of interior affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative...

Repression in the Soviet Union was an ongoing characteristic of the state throughout the history of the Soviet Union, characterized by restricting the...

was the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934. The OGPU was formed from the State Political Directorate...

From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy...

the deported. Resettling of "enemy classes" such as prosperous peasants and entire populations by ethnicity was a method of political repression in the...

forced labor in the Gulag. Nina decides to follow her husband to Sevvostlag in Kolyma, a remote region of the Soviet Union bounded by the East Siberian...