The Serov Instructions featured instructions on a mass deportation by the Soviet Union of tens of thousands of people from the territories occupied in what year?
Serov Instructions The so-called Serov Instructions (full title: "On the Procedure for Carrying out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia") was an undated top secret document, signed by General Ivan Serov, Deputy People's Commissar for State Security of the Soviet Union (NKGB). The instructions detailed procedures on how to carry out the mass deportations to Siberia of June 13–14, 1941 throughout the Baltic States during the first Soviet occupation of 1940–1941.
The Great Terror The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties is a book by British historian Robert Conquest, published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge. Conquest's title was also an evocative allusion to the period that was called the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (French: "la Terreur", and, from June to July 1794, "la Grande Terreur", the Great Terror).