purge
removal of people who are considered undesirable
Korean literati purges
series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries
proscription
public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state
Black Spring
2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents accused of being foreign spies
Great Purge
Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution (August 1936 - March 1938)
Purge
prohibition of designated Japanese from public service
Red Purge
anti-communist, anti-leftist political movement in Japan after World War II
Purple Robe Incident
political incident in the early Edo period Japan
Inner Mongolia incident
political purge during the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia
Second Great Rectification Movement
political movement in the Philippines
Night of the Long Knives
purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934
Corrective Revolution
reform introduced by Anwar Sadat in Egypt