In his Secret Speech at the Communist Party's Twentieth Congress, Nikita Khrushchev asserted that Stalin intended to use the doctors' trial to launch a massive party purge.

In fact, the first major party purge had taken place earlier that year, but did not become public for another year.

Mr. Kadar himself started Hungary in the direction of national reconciliation in 1962 with a drastic party purge.

However, he left the part in 1964 following the expulsions of Jorge Semprún and Fernando Claudin in a party purge.

After Stalin's death in March 1953, Nikita Khrushchev revealed that the conspiracy had been fabricated as justification for a new massive party purge.

Bahro regards Stalin's subsequent massive industrialization as a necessary development, justifying the party purge as inevitable.

Khrushchev, the leader of the Jets, sang, "When you're a Red you're a Red all the way from your first party purge to your last power play."

There was also a party purge.

The prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the Soviet Union is that Stalin intended to use the resulting doctors' trial to launch a massive party purge.

Did Yeltsin, who met privately with Yavlinsky two months ago, have any role in the party purge?