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Shakhty Case

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Stalinist purges

  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922–91
    In Soviet Union: Toward the second Revolution: 1927–30

    …of sabotage in the so-called Shakhty Case. The theme, repeated in endless propaganda over the following years, was that bourgeois specialists could not be trusted. Large numbers were subsequently arrested. By 1930 more than half of the surviving engineers had no proper training. In all institutes and academies, ideological hacks…

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