Name
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Date
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Location
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Deaths
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Notes
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Execution of the Romanov family
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16-17 July 1918
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Yekaterinburg
|
11
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Justified by the Bolsheviks as necessary to prevent the anti-communist White Army from rescuing them. The USSR repeatedly denied that Vladimir Lenin was responsible.
|
Red Terror
|
1918–1922
|
Nationwide
|
100,000–200,000
|
For the purpose of political repression and suppression of armed resistance.
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First Decossackization
|
1919–1920s
|
Don and Kuban regions
|
hundreds of thousands
|
Mass murder and genocide of cossaks.
|
Case Spring
|
1930–1931
|
Russia
|
3,000+
|
Over a thousand killed in St. Petersburg alone.[1] First purge conducted by Stalin.
|
Great purge
|
1936–1938
|
Nationwide
|
681,692–1,200,000
|
Ordered by Joseph Stalin.
|
Polish Operation of the NKVD
|
August 1937– November 1938
|
Nationwide
|
111,091
|
Largest ethnic shooting during the Great purge.
|
Sandarmokh
|
1937-38
|
Sandarmokh, Karelia
|
9000
|
Mass executions of prisoners
|
Vinnytsia massacre
|
1937–1938
|
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
|
11,000
|
|
Katyn massacre
|
April–May 1940
|
Katyn Forest, Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons
|
22,000
|
Mass executions of Polish nationals by NKVD.
|
NKVD prisoner massacres
|
June–July 1941
|
Occupied Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic states
|
~100,000
|
|
Khatyn massacre
|
March 22, 1943
|
Khatyn
|
149
|
Propagandized in the USSR to cover phonetically similar Katyn massacre
|
Khaibakh massacre
|
February 27, 1944
|
Chechnya, Soviet Union
|
230–700
|
During the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples.
|
Kengir uprising
|
6 May 1954 – 26 June 1954
|
Kengir
|
500–700
|
|
Novocherkassk massacre
|
1 – 2 June 1962
|
Novocherkassk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
|
26
|
|
Jeltoqsan massacre
|
December 16–19, 1986
|
Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR
|
168-200
|
|
Sumgait massacre
|
February 26 - March 1, 1988
|
Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR
|
32
|
|
January Massacre
|
January 19–20, 1990
|
Baku, Azerbaijan
|
133-137
|
Known also as the Black January (Qara Yanvar)
|
Tbilisi Massacre
|
April 9, 1989
|
Tbilisi, Georgia
|
20
|
Many civilians wounded and killed with sapper spades
|
Vorkuta uprising
|
starting July 19, 1953
|
Vorkuta
|
42
|
|
Fântâna Albă massacre
|
April 1, 1941
|
Northern Bukovina
|
200-2,000
|
|
January Events
|
January 11–13, 1991
|
Vilnius, Lithuania
|
15
|
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