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Fatix Säyfi-Qazanlı
Fatix Säyfi-Qazanlı (, , ; 1888–1938) was a Russian public figure and writer. Executed during the Great Purge, he was subsequently rehabilitated. Biography Fatix Säyfi was born on March 22, 1888, in the village of Qaramalı to a middle-class peasant family. During the famine of 1891–1892 his family moved to Kazan, where Säyfi studied at Möxämmädiä madarasa. After graduating from the madrasa, he worked as a teacher in Minzälä Uyezd; then he returned to Kazan to work as a journalist, collaborating with various Tatar-language newspapers and journals, such as ''Yoldız'', ''Tormış'', ''Añ'', ''Yalt-Yolt'' and ''Aq yul''. In 1912, Säyfi moved to Ufa and worked as a history lecturer in Ğäliä madrasa between 1915 and 1917. After the February Revolution Säyfi-Qazanlı began to engage in political activities. Together with Ğalimcan İbrahimof and Şärif Sünçäläy he began to publish a newspaper called ''İrek'' (Freedom). In June 1917 he participated in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Purge
The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected party dissenters from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, especially those aligned with the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik party. The term "great purge" was popularized by the historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book ''The Great Terror (book), The Great Terror'', whose title was an allusion to the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. The purges were largely conducted by the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), which functioned as the Ministry of home affairs, interior ministry and secret police of the USSR. Starting in 1936, the NKVD under chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
