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imprisonment, with mass terror peaking in 1937-1938.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the Great Purge as a historically bounded complex of Stalinist political repression in the Soviet Union, conventionally centred on 1936-1938, with explicit handling of differing uses of Great Purge and Great Terror.", "in_scope": [ "Competing periodisations and definitions of the Great Purge and Great Terror", "Relationships among party purges, public trials, military repression and mass operations", "Authorisation, implementation and revision of repressive campaigns", "Targeting, accusations, coercive procedures and victim outcomes", "Evidence, population estimates, rehabilitation and historical interpretation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Soviet repression across its entire history", "Collectivisation, famine and deportation campaigns except where directly connected to the defined purge episode", "Complete biographies of Stalin, officials, perpetrators or victims", "The entire organisational history of the Communist Party, NKVD or Gulag", "Political purges as a general class of action", "Later commemorative institutions as independently modelled organisations" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An included episode must have an evidenced connection to the specified Soviet purge campaigns; occurrence under Stalin alone is insufficient.", "The model distinguishes party expulsion from arrest, imprisonment and execution rather than treating all uses of purge as equivalent.", "Public political trials and less visible mass operations are represented separately, even when a historical account groups them under one label.", "Campaign membership requires a documented institutional, procedural or targeting connection rather than merely a date within 1936-1938.", "Great Purge and Great Terror are treated as source-dependent scope labels whose equivalence must be established for each account." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Historical designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": 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"category", "unit_or_values": "Party disciplinary process; court or military tribunal; extrajudicial body; other documented mechanism; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies how accusations became sanctions and which institutions participated." }, { "name": "Recorded outcome", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Expulsion; dismissal; arrest; release; imprisonment; execution; death in custody; other; unknown; multiple sequential outcomes", "why_it_matters": "Prevents distinct harms and successive events from becoming interchangeable counts." }, { "name": "Affected population estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons or cases, with outcome, interval, territory, inclusion rule, uncertainty and deduplication method", "why_it_matters": "Makes quantitative claims comparable and exposes incompatible denominators." }, { "name": "Evidence assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed; corroborated for a specified claim; disputed; insufficient; inaccessible", "why_it_matters": "A document may establish an official accusation without establishing its truth." }, { "name": "Subsequent case disposition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not established; reviewed; sentence revised; conviction annulled; rehabilitated; other documented disposition", "why_it_matters": "Separates later legal or administrative decisions from original outcomes and historical interpretation." } ], "affordances": [ "Determine whether a documented episode belongs within a stated definition of the Great Purge.", "Trace connections among directives, implementing bodies, accusations and outcomes.", "Compare population estimates after aligning their scope and counting rules.", "Identify unsupported inferences from coerced testimony or official targeting labels.", "Build evidence-linked timelines of persecution and subsequent case review.", "Flag unresolved attribution, contradictory records and missing documentation for further research." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "event-boundaries-and-campaigns", "name": "Event boundaries and campaigns", "description": "Represent what a particular account includes under Great Purge and how its component campaigns relate.", "rationale": "The event cannot be recognised consistently if terminology, dates and campaign membership are silently assumed.", "layers": [ { "id": "terminology-and-periodisation", "name": "Terminology and periodisation", "description": "Record attributed definitions and the evidence used to establish temporal boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-event-definition", "name": "Attributed event definition", "description": "Capture each source's use of Great Purge or Great Terror, including whether it foregrounds elite repression, mass operations or both.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does this source include under Great Purge, and does it distinguish that label from Great Terror?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-event-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Which developments justify its starting and ending dates, and which connected episodes fall outside them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-event-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "component-campaign-membership", "name": "Component campaign membership", "description": "Differentiate public trials, party and military purges, and mass operations while recording their connections.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-inclusion-test", "name": "Episode inclusion test", "description": "Require an explicit reason for connecting a trial, arrest wave or institutional purge to the modelled event.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which directive, institutional process or historical argument connects this episode to the Great Purge?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "episode-inclusion-test-q01" }, { "text": "Is this episode a component campaign, a precursor, an aftermath or a separate repressive action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "episode-inclusion-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorisation-and-implementation", "name": "Authorisation and implementation", "description": "Trace how political decisions became operational instructions and local practices.", "rationale": "Assessment of responsibility requires distinctions among authorisation, implementation, escalation and retrospective explanation.", "layers": [ { "id": "directives-and-command", "name": "Directives and command", "description": "Connect leadership decisions, NKVD orders and implementing authorities using documented relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-authority-chain", "name": "Documented authority chain", "description": "Record who issued, approved, transmitted and executed an instruction without inferring personal involvement solely from rank.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records establish the roles of Stalin, party leadership, NKVD leadership and regional authorities in this decision?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-authority-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Does the 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"Which outcomes are documented for the person and affected relatives, and which dates or dispositions remain unknown?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coercion-and-disposition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-reckoning-and-interpretation", "name": "Evidence, reckoning and interpretation", "description": "Evaluate documentary claims, numerical estimates and later reassessments.", "rationale": "Records produced by repression, later investigations and historical research answer different questions and require distinct treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "record-criticism-and-counting", "name": "Record criticism and counting", "description": "Assess source provenance and make population claims comparable.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-specific-source-assessment", "name": "Claim-specific source assessment", "description": "Evaluate what orders, case files, execution records, testimony and later compilations can establish for a particular claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who created this 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"description": "Represent attributed explanations involving leadership choices, institutional incentives, security fears and local dynamics as arguments to evaluate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which historian or research tradition advances this explanation, and what evidence supports its proposed mechanism?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "competing-causal-accounts-q01" }, { "text": "Does the explanation account for elite trials, mass operations and regional variation equally well, or only for a defined subset?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "competing-causal-accounts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported 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"answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Great Purge is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Great Purge passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Great Purge between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Great Purge, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Great Purge, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Great Purge is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Great Purge, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Great Purge is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Great Purge, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Great Purge, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Great Purge is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and 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"kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Great Purge is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a Great Purge consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Great Purge takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Great Purge, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Great Purge, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Great Purge is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What Great Purge is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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Great Purge operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of Great Purge and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of Great Purge?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as Great Purge?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Great Purge came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Great Purge is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }