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The Wittorf affair (German: Wittorf-Affäre) was a political scandal that occurred in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Republic in 1928. Chairman Ernst Thälmann was ousted from the KPD Central Committee when his close friend John Wittorf had embezzled from a party campaign fund and Thälmann tried to cover up the embezzlement. Joseph Stalin had Thälmann reinstated as KPD Chairman using the influence of Comintern, completing the Stalinization of the KPD and beginning a purge of moderates from the party.[1][2]
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The Wittorfaffair (German: Wittorf-Affäre) was a political scandal that occurred in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Republic in...
party executive under the leadership of regional party secretary John Wittorf. Also in 1927 Schehr was again a delegate at the party's eleventh party...
The report resulted in a commission by the Communist Party to study the affair. In October, the commission estimated that of the roughly 2,000 survivors...
The Georgian affair of 1922 (Russian: Грузинское дело) was a political conflict within the Soviet leadership about the way in which social and political...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
was drunk, and talking about Alliluyeva's issues with Stalin's supposed affairs. The two parted ways and Alliluyeva returned to her residence. Events after...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of...
ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief Lavrentiy Beria, started a new purge that initially...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
The Georgian Communist Party opposed the idea, resulting in the Georgian affair. In mid-1921, Stalin returned to the South Caucasus, there calling on Georgian...
Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings...
Morozov [ru], a student at Moscow University's Institute of International Affairs. Her father did not like Morozov, who was Jewish, though he never met him...
1925. There was a falling out between the two men over the so-called Wittorfaffair of 1928, however. Between 1931 and 1947, Dengel lived principally in...
In 1932 Zinoviev and Kamenev were found to be complicit in the Ryutin Affair and again were temporarily expelled from the Communist Party. At this time...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
(pdf format) Loren Graham, Chapter 6. "Stalinist Ideology and the Lysenko Affair", in Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (New York: Cambridge University...
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would swap them for Paulus? Were they worse than Yakov?" Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister Vyacheslav Molotov also recounted that Stalin refused to swap...
II). Deportations of whole nationalities. Doctors' plot and Mingrelian affair. Manifestations of personality cult: songs, city names and so on. Lyrics...
Britain's representative, with Britain's new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ernest Bevin, replacing Anthony Eden. Four days of further discussion...
days later, on March 27, the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) arrested 16 Polish opposition political leaders who had been invited...
National delimitation in the Soviet Union Georgian Affair Decossackization Dekulakization Wittorfaffair Great Break Demolition of Cathedral of Christ the...
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