Peljidiin Genden… was a Mongolian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Mongolia from 1924 to 1927, and the ninth prime minister of the country from 1932 to 1936…
His independent temperament, outspokenness (he became famous for fearlessly confronting Stalin during their public meetings in Moscow and was one of the few to stand up to Stalin’s strong personality), and growing nationalist sentiments ultimately led to his Soviet-orchestrated purge in March 1936. Accused of conspiring against the revolution and spying for the Japanese, he was executed in Moscow on November 26, 1937.
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The “Great Terror” (colloquially “Yezhovshchina”) is a term in modern historiography that characterizes the period of the most widespread political (Stalinist) repressions in the USSR in 1937–1938. Scholars still disagree on the cause of the terror. Most historians believe that Stalin played a key role in organizing and carrying out the repressions.
The period began with the appointment of N. I. Yezhov to the post of head of the NKVD and with the subsequent issuance by him of the Order of the NKVD of the USSR of July 30, 1937, No. 00447.
It ended in September-November 1938 with large-scale arrests of N. I. Yezhov’s proteges in the NKVD and his replacement as head of the NKVD by L. P. Beria, and with the resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of November 17, 1938 prohibiting the NKVD and the prosecutor’s office from carrying out any mass operations of arrests and deportations, with the liquidation of extrajudicial “troikas” created by special orders of the NKVD of the USSR, etc.
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