the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to 1943 as part of Khruschev's policy to minimize the scope of the Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
Question 3: Another defendant, Ivan Smirnov, confessed to taking part in the assassination of ________ in December 1934, at a time when he had already been in prison for a year.
Question 7: Jan Sten, philosopher and deputy head of the Marx-Engels Institute was Stalin's private tutor when Stalin was trying hard to study Hegel's ________.
Question 9: This was a justification maintained to the very end by Vyacheslav Molotov and ________, participants in the repression as members of the Politburo, who both signed many death lists.
Question 10: The campaigns also affected many other categories of the society: intelligentsia, peasants and especially those branded as "too rich for a peasant" (________), and professionals.
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