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Definitions of purges in various dictionaries:
noun - the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
noun - an act of removing by cleansing
noun - an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
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| Plural form of purge. |
| rid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition. |
| physically remove (something) completely. |
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Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (Russian: " ", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were a Soviet ritual in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted to get rid of "undesirables".In her book Everyday Stalinism, Sheila Fitzpatrick says that such purges took place especially during the 1920s, a period of the young Soviet Union that she calls its "cultural revolution" (echoing the name of the similar later period in China), "bringing excitement into the workday bureaucratic routine". Such reviews would start with a short autobiography from the reviewed person and then interrogation of him or her by the purge commission as well as by the attending audience. * Although the term "purge" has become mostly associated with Stalin's rule, the Bolsheviks carried out their first major purge of the Party ranks as early as 1921. About 220,000 members were purged or left the party in 1921. The purge was justified by the necessity t |