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Clergy executions during the 1937-1938 Great Purge

Estimates of clergy executions during the 1937-1938 Great Purge in the Soviet Union, using various sources such as NKVD files, Politburo orders, and church records.

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How have historians estimated clergy executions during the 1937–1938 Great Purge?

Historians estimate clergy executions during the 1937–1938 Great Purge by triangulating fragmentary NKVD files and Politburo orders, contemporary press and church records, and post‑Soviet archival rel...