Leningrad Affair

Target entity: Leningrad Affair
Context triple: [Stalinist repressions, hasPart, Leningrad Affair]

• A. Moscow Trials
  The Moscow Trials were a series of highly publicized show trials in the late 1930s Soviet Union, where many Old Bolsheviks and other alleged opponents of Joseph Stalin were forced to confess to fabricated crimes and subsequently executed or imprisoned.
• B. Trial of the Twenty-One
  The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
• C. White Terror
  White Terror refers to the campaign of political repression, mass executions, and violence carried out by anti-Bolshevik forces and their allies during the Russian Civil War.
• D. Yezhovshchina
  Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
• E. Secret Speech of 1956
  The Secret Speech of 1956 was a landmark address by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality and political repressions, which triggered major shifts within the Soviet Union and the global communist movement.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Leningrad Affair
Target entity description: The Leningrad Affair was a late-1940s Soviet political purge in which Stalin orchestrated the arrest and execution of prominent Leningrad Party and government officials to eliminate perceived regional rivals and consolidate his power.

• A. Moscow Trials
  The Moscow Trials were a series of highly publicized show trials in the late 1930s Soviet Union, where many Old Bolsheviks and other alleged opponents of Joseph Stalin were forced to confess to fabricated crimes and subsequently executed or imprisoned.
• B. Trial of the Twenty-One
  The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
• C. White Terror
  White Terror refers to the campaign of political repression, mass executions, and violence carried out by anti-Bolshevik forces and their allies during the Russian Civil War.
• D. Yezhovshchina
  Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
• E. Secret Speech of 1956
  The Secret Speech of 1956 was a landmark address by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality and political repressions, which triggered major shifts within the Soviet Union and the global communist movement.
• F. None of above. chosen