Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Stalin’s Rise and Dictatorship.
The most intense and deadly period of the Great Terror (1936–1938), named after the head of the NKVD, Nikolai Yezhov.
Yezhovshchina appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Russia and the Soviet Union, especially Stalin’s Rise and Dictatorship and Use of Terror.
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