Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
That's why the year of 1938 is usually said to be the end of the great terror in Russia?
Yes. The term "Stalinist repressions" was invented later, by Khrushchev. The Khrushchev's aim was to indirectly attack Beria. Before that it was known as "Yezhovshchina". Stalin was the first to turn public attention towards it.