Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT · 1932

Pavlik Morozov (1932)

Sep 1932 — Pavel Morozov and his younger brother were killed in Gerasimovka, a village in the Urals. Propaganda turned Pavlik into a child hero who had denounced his own father to the authorities. Historians have since shown that much of this legend was invented.

When: Sep 1932
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Stalin’s cult of personality (chapter 8 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas: The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953

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Map showing Pavlik Morozov (1932), turning point in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953 — TURNING POINT · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical political boundaries · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Natural Earth full administrative reference geometry · Published projection for the Soviet Union location-map family · Bukharan PSR in the Soviet Union (1922), published vector locator · Volga German ASSR, 20 July 1930: published locator map · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries

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Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated source selection, component unions, disjoint display masks and source-relative border differences.
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Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Complete selected units and holes; geographic references to named memorial regions, not claims of dated district perimeters.
Hellerick. Mathematical projection parameters; source artwork CC BY-SA 3.0
TRAJAN 117, TarzanASG, Anonimu and Milenioscuro; underlying location-map geography by Hellerick/Natural Earth. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Identified Bukhara, Khorezm and historical Aral SVG paths independently inverse-projected; derivative geometry distributed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fotisgrek. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Native red territorial class extracted and registered to published lake geography; derivative under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.

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