Yezhovshchina en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ежовщина (ježovščina). Named after Russian secret police official Nikolai Yezhov.
Meanings
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(historical, uncountable) A period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, particularly from 1937 to 1938.
... Between the 1929-1930 purge and Yezhovshchina period in 1936-1939, there was a steady rooting out of writers too devoted to national sentiment. The anathema went even beyond this veil of tears, and in Azerbaydzhan the grave of the poet, Narym Narymanov, who had[…]
1956, Kenneth R. Whiting, Soviet Problems of Nationality and Industrial Management, page 18:
Synonyms
Translations (4)
de Jeschowschtschina (period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union) · ru ежовщина (period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union) · uk єжовщина (period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union) · pl jeżowszczyzna (period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union)