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Mark Weale How Far Was Stalin personally Responsible For The Great Purges? Under Stalin's leadership, approximately 70 000 people were murdered during the purges of 1928 to 1940, and some 12 million people died as a result of Stalin's sending them to the Gulags otherwise known as the camps, and these estimates are described as being conservative. Many historians believe that up to 17 million people could have died as a result of Stalin's purges. Was this due to Stalin's paranoia, or were other factors involved in these huge numbers of dead? After Lenin's death, Stalin succeeded him as leader after a gap of about three years. He had achieved his position through skilful maneuvering and ruthlessness in his dealings with fellow party members. Stalin had been brought up as a Georgian peasant, but his lack of regard for his fellow human beings had been shown by his brutal repression of Georgia in...

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