Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937

one-party state

Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937

Industry Historical

The Soviet Union during the Great Purge, when party, military, state, and ordinary civic life were subjected to terror, imprisonment, executions, and ideological control. It scores as malignant because egalitarian claims were operationally contradicted by concentrated party-state domination.

Why this matters: This calibrates revolutionary rhetoric against actual power relations.

Letter grade F Malignant Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score -73* F - Malignant

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material9
Bonus+0
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap9
Penalties-82
L
Policy Capture: L for Lobbying

The L badge appears when the Policy Capture penalty is severe. Here, L stands for Lobbying: the policy-capture value is -12, meaning the evidence indicates major private-interest lobbying or policy pressure against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, democratic accountability, or ecological life.

Evidence: [1] [2] [11]

!Not Verified
Represent this organization?

Request verification to have the evidence record checked against primary materials and organization-supplied documents. Verification does not buy a higher score; scores change only when review finds factual errors, omissions, or miscalibration.

Request verification

Evaluation Overview

F - Malignant

The score turns mainly on Scale Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Coercive Violence.

Strengths

  • Scale Integrity5/5
  • Extraction1/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed1/7

Penalties

  • Coercive Violence-25
  • Human Harm-18
  • Policy Capture-12
  • Debt Peonage-8

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims16
  • Direct axis claims16
  • Coverage15/18

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
0 / 10

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Uncertainty
  • No separate axis-specific source was added for this zero/no-credit value in the historical snapshot pass.
Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
0 / 10

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Uncertainty
  • No separate axis-specific source was added for this zero/no-credit value in the historical snapshot pass.
Linked evidence
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
1 / 10

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for extraction based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
0 / 7

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Uncertainty
  • No separate axis-specific source was added for this zero/no-credit value in the historical snapshot pass.
Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
1 / 7

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for solidarity unemployed based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [4]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
0 / 7

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Uncertainty
  • No separate axis-specific source was added for this zero/no-credit value in the historical snapshot pass.
Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
1 / 5

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for market conduct based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [5]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
1 / 5

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for product integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [6]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for scale integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [7]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Human Harm
?
Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.
-18

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for human harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [8]
Coercive Violence
?
Direct or institutionally enabled killing, torture, detention abuse, armed repression, forced displacement, violent domination, or nonconsensual crisis-line emergency escalation that exposes callers to confinement or force. Range: -30 to 0.
-25

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for coercive violence based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [9]
Ecological Harm
?
Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
-6

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for ecological harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [10]
Policy Capture
?
Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
-12

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for policy capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [11]
Debt Peonage
?
Coercive or structurally inescapable debt systems, including bankruptcy-resistant student debt, compelled servicing relationships, wage or benefit garnishment leverage, distressed-debt buying, debt collection, or refinancing practices that turn education, medical care, housing, household necessity, or public obligation into long-term debtor control. Ordinary transparent lending is not penalized by itself. Range: -12 to 0.
-8

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for debt peonage based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [12]
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for disclosure based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [13]
Identity Capture
?
Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-3

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for identity capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [14]
Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
-5

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for surveillance capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [15]
Ideological Disavowal
?
Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-3

The 1937 snapshot captures the regime at its internal-terror peak.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Historical calibration snapshot for 1937, compared with current and historical directory entries.

Linked evidence
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges. [1]
  • context Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history. [2]
  • Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for ideological disavowal based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation. [16]

Bonus Credits

No bonus credits applied in this version.

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 71/100

16 verified linked claims 16 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 15/18 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 14/20

16 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

16 direct claims across 18 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 8/10

15/18 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
Correction routeUse “Challenge this rating” for factual errors, missing counterevidence, source problems, or calculation mistakes.
Company responseCompany representatives can submit source-backed corrections; payment never changes scores or reviewer authority.

Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes show trials, closed trials, executions, imprisonment, and military purges.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937: Britannica describes the Yezhovshchina as one of the most brutal terrors in recorded history.

Human Harm Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for extraction based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Extraction Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

4Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for solidarity unemployed based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for market conduct based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

6Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for product integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

7Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for scale integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

8Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for human harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Human Harm Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

9Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for coercive violence based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Coercive Violence Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

10Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for ecological harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

11Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for policy capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

12Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for debt peonage based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Debt Peonage Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

13Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for disclosure based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

14Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for identity capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

15Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for surveillance capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Surveillance Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

16Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 has a year-specific historical finding for ideological disavowal based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

Alternatives

Competitors

Help Improve This Profile

Submit source-backed evidence or challenge a specific claim, source, axis value, or calculation below.

How This Page Is Maintained

Evidence comes in through contributors, is checked by verifiers, and is synthesized by reviewers. Founder authority remains narrow and visible; scores recalculate when verified claims or the rubric change.

Civic Note

Incorporation, limited liability, market access, and other institutional privileges are public grants. Good Companies Directory treats those privileges as conditional on accountability to workers, users, communities, and the public.

Submit evidence for Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 Add one source-backed fact for review.

Challenge this rating Point to a specific score, claim, source, or calculation problem.

Audit Log

Recent public changes for this company or group. The full audit log is part of the Transparency record.

No company-specific audit entries have been published yet.

View Full Audit Log