Great Purge

Quality:

Great Purge - Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution (August 1936 - March 1938). Article “Great Purge” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8773^rd most popular in all topics.

The 4871^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8737^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Great Purge”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3640 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4871^st place).

The article is cited 54 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17804 times in all languages (9761^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2279 in February 2021
• Global: #1337 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6101 in March 2022
• Global: #2124 in March 2022

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Großer Terror (Sowjetunion)		100
2	Greek (el) Μεγάλη Εκκαθάριση		100
3	Catalan (ca) Gran Purga		100
4	Slovenian (sl) Velika čistka		100
5	English (en) Great Purge		95.3687
6	Azerbaijani (az) Böyük təmizləmə		86.6834
7	Russian (ru) Большой террор		85.0947
8	Japanese (ja) 大粛清		78.0331
9	Chinese (zh) 大清洗		77.1215
10	Polish (pl) Wielka czystka		65.8752

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Purge		13 296 995
2	Russian (ru) Большой террор		4 099 044
3	Japanese (ja) 大粛清		2 275 100
4	Polish (pl) Wielka czystka		1 831 612
5	Spanish (es) Gran Purga		1 532 970
6	German (de) Großer Terror (Sowjetunion)		1 258 381
7	French (fr) Grandes Purges		1 078 562
8	Chinese (zh) 大清洗		1 044 441
9	Italian (it) Grandi purghe		1 027 521
10	Ukrainian (uk) Великий терор		377 052

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Purge		51 588
2	Russian (ru) Большой террор		14 467
3	Japanese (ja) 大粛清		7 269
4	Chinese (zh) 大清洗		5 663
5	German (de) Großer Terror (Sowjetunion)		4 717
6	Polish (pl) Wielka czystka		4 358
7	French (fr) Grandes Purges		3 757
8	Spanish (es) Gran Purga		3 278
9	Italian (it) Grandi purghe		3 058
10	Persian (fa) پاکسازی بزرگ		1 672

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Purge		978
2	Russian (ru) Большой террор		387
3	German (de) Großer Terror (Sowjetunion)		284
4	French (fr) Grandes Purges		209
5	Polish (pl) Wielka czystka		188
6	Italian (it) Grandi purghe		172
7	Spanish (es) Gran Purga		134
8	Japanese (ja) 大粛清		125
9	Chinese (zh) 大清洗		123
10	Dutch (nl) Grote Zuivering		84

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Большой террор		5
2	Vietnamese (vi) Đại thanh trừng		3
3	English (en) Great Purge		2
4	Serbian (sr) Велика чистка		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Великий терор		2
6	Catalan (ca) Gran Purga		1
7	Finnish (fi) Stalinin vainot		1
8	Hebrew (he) הטיהורים הגדולים		1
9	Japanese (ja) 大粛清		1
10	Dutch (nl) Grote Zuivering		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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