Mikhail Gylling
Self - Medical Doctor


TV SERIES
The Great Purge orchastrated in the Soviet Union during 1937-38 cost almost 700 000 lives. Especially ethnic minorities were targeted. Four-part documentary tells the story of what happened to the people living the Soviet Union, and how the terror was built in the red dictatorship.
Self - Medical Doctor
Self - Professor of History, University of Opole
Self - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
Self - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
Self - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
Self - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
Self - Teacher
Self - Narrator (voice)
Self - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
Self - Historian, University of Helsinki
Self - Early Childhood Educator
Self - Professor of History, University of Pomerania
Tommi Pietiläinen (Director) • Toni Viljanmaa (Writer)
1973Series
2007Series
2021Series
2009Series
2017Series
2009Series
1990Series
2024Series
2021Series
2018Series
2020Series
01Expecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.
02A Finnish detective, who has been detained in the Solovetskyi prison camp, faces the first steps that the Great Purge takes. The hunt for so-called gulags, property owning farmers, starts, and impacts especially Ukraine.
03Finnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.
04Germans and Polish are sentenced to camps or to death, starting the purge of ethnic minority groups. When Stalin's persecutions are at their height, operations follow seemlessly each other.