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Beria meaning
A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.
Synonyms of Beria
Using Beria
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.
- Useful related words include: lavrenti pavlovich beria, captain, police captain, police chief.
- In the example corpus, beria often appears in combinations such as: beria was, beria and, of beria.
Context around Beria
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Beria
- In this selection, "beria" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lavrentii, 1946, dining, proved, began and formed stand out and add context to how "beria" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a student beria distinguished himself and accounts of beria s fall. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "beria" sits close to words such as abbasid, abdicate and adapters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with beria
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beria was taken completely by surprise. (6 words)
Accounts of Beria's fall vary considerably. (7 words)
After Stalin's stroke, Beria claimed to have killed him. (10 words)
Lawyers had argued that there might be a case for a review on strictly legal grounds — because although there was abundant evidence of Beria’s general guilt there was little evidence that he was guilty of the key accusations against him. (41 words)
The execution of Beria proved to be the last time the loser of a top-level Soviet power struggle paid with his life.sfn The power struggle in the Presidium was not resolved by the elimination of Beria. (38 words)
Beria and the others were tried by a special session ("Spetsialnoye Sudebnoye Prisutstvie") of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal. (34 words)
Beria replied, in a panic, "Oh Comrades, what's the matter? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
The execution of Beria proved to be the last time the loser of a top-level Soviet power struggle paid with his life.sfn The power struggle in the Presidium was not resolved by the elimination of Beria.
Within days of the events in Germany, Khrushchev persuaded the other leaders to support a Party coup against Beria; Beria's principal ally Malenkov abandoned him.
Lawyers had argued that there might be a case for a review on strictly legal grounds — because although there was abundant evidence of Beria’s general guilt there was little evidence that he was guilty of the key accusations against him.
Beria began the process of destalinization by playing tapes of his conversations with the late dictator to the Communist Party Central Committee.
Accounts of Beria's fall vary considerably.
A factor that contributed strongly to this was Lavrentii Beria 's decision to test a nuclear bomb on the territory of Kazakh SSR in Semey in 1949.
After 1946 Beria formed an alliance with Malenkov to counter Zhdanov's rise.
After dining, Beria would take the women into his soundproofed office and rape them.
After Stalin's stroke, Beria claimed to have killed him.
Alliluyeva noticed how the Politburo seemed openly frightened of Beria and unnerved by his bold display of ambition.
A luxury villa near Gagri was given to him by Beria.
Amazingly, the physicist Pyotr Kapitsa refused to work with Beria even after he gave him a hunting rifle as a gift.
As a student, Beria distinguished himself in mathematics and the sciences.
Beria and the others were tried by a special session ("Spetsialnoye Sudebnoye Prisutstvie") of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal.
Beria attended a technical school in Sukhumi, and joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 while a student in the Baku Polytechnicum (subsequently known as the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy ).
Beria replied, in a panic, "Oh Comrades, what's the matter?
Beria's overconfidence in his position after Stalin's death led him to misjudge other Politburo members.
Beria's participation in the Purge of the Red Army in 1941 was classified as an act of terrorism.
Beria was deeply disturbed by these charges, as large amounts of Czech arms had been sold to Israel on his direct orders.
Beria was taken completely by surprise.
Common combinations with beria
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- beria was 7×
- beria and 6×
- of beria 4×
- that beria 3×
- lavrenty beria 3×
- with beria 2×
- against beria 2×
- by beria 2×
- to beria 2×
- beria not 2×