trails had a horrific effect on the progress of Russia. With the loss of the educated Russian elite there was now nobody left to lead the Soviet Union into the future. The few of the elite that still remained in Russia lived in constant fear of their lives.As a result of earlier "purges" the Party elections of 1936 and 1937 resulted in a great turnover of lower and middle-level Party leadership by democratic vote of the Party membership. The new Party leaders thus elected were, on the whole, both younger, and closer to the working class in that they had more recently been workers, than the older generation of Party leaders.Stalin’s next phase started in 1932. The name that has come to this is the “Terror Famine.” In this Terror Famine, Stalin started to order grain from the peasantry in the Ukraine and then used the Soviet military to retrieve this grain. Under the orders of Stalin, the army took practically all the grain for the state. This intern caused a famine among the peasants of the Ukraine. Stalin justified the taking of the grain by saying that it was just a way for the state to regulate the price of grain. In the end this grain was sold and the money raised went to the state. The result of doing this was Stalin breaking the back of the Georgians and the Ukrainians and once more securing his power. Knowingly in causing this famine Stalin eliminated millions upon millions of Russian peasants. The conservative estimated losses due to this famine has been calculated between 30 and 50 million people. By killing so many of the Russian's who were the ones that the economy was supported on, Stalin had broken the Ukraine.Stalin’s new philosophy of justice and show trials climaxed during 1937 and 1938 with 7 millions of innocent Soviet citizens being sent off to labor camps or executed. Starting in 1937 Stalin’s rein led into what is known now as “The Great Terror.” The Great Terro...
