In history and political science, to purge is to remove 'undesirable' people from a government, political party, profession, or from community/society as a whole, usually by violent means. In the latter case it is also called political repression. == Notable Purges in History == The purge has been a political tool throughout recorded history. In the era of Republican Rome, Marius proscribed Sullan supporters after he and Cinna ousted Cnaeus Octavius; Sulla followed with even more brutal proscriptions against Marian supporters when he came into the dictatorship. The Second Triumvirate instituted more proscriptions some forty years afterward after taking control of Rome from Caesar's murderers. The earliest use of the term itself was the English Civil War's Pride's Purge. In 1648, the moderate members of the English Long Parliament were purged by the army. Parliament would suffer subsequent purges under the Commonwealth including the purge of the entire House of Lords. Counter-revolutionaries such as royalists were purged as well as more radical revolutionaries such as the Levellers. After the Restoration, obstinate republicans were purged while some fled to New England. The French Revolution saw revolutionary factions purging each other. The most famous purge was Robespierre's Reign of Terror which ended with him being purged as well. After the fall of Napoleon, all those associated with revolutionary activity were purged. Purges are often associated with the Stalinism and Maoism regimes. Those who were purged (among them artists, scientists, teachers, people in the military, but also many long-time communism who dared to disagree with the party leadership) were sent to labor camps or execution (legal). The most notorious purge was the Great Purge initiated by Joseph Stalin during the 1930s. Deng Xiaoping was known for the distinction of returning to power multiple times after surviving multiple purges. The Nazis also engaged in purges, most notably in the Night of the Long Knives and the mass reprisals against Adolf Hitler's opponents following the July Plot. See also: CPSU purges Persecution
==Purging in Wikipedia== What about "purging" a page in Wikipedia? I don't quite understand what that does, so I came here to find out...User:Pie4all88 02:03, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) :You mean to purge a page from your browser's cache? Basically, to save time, when you visit most pages, your web browser keeps a copy of the page on your computer in what is called the cache, so that if you visit the page again, the browser can simply bring up the copy that's on your computer instead of having to download the page from the web again, which takes time. However, this means that if a change was made to the page on the web, the page may be out-of-date in your browser cache; to purge the cache means to empty the cache to force the browser to get a new, up-to-date copy of the page from the web. User:Lowellian—User:Lowellian (User talk:Lowellian)
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In history and political science, to purge is to remove 'undesirable' people from a government, political party, profession, or from community/society as a whole, usually by violent means. In the latter case it is also called political repression. == Notable Purges in History == The purge has been a political tool throughout recorded history. In the era of Republican Rome, Marius proscribed Sullan supporters after he and Cinna ousted Cnaeus Octavius; Sulla followed with even more brutal proscriptions against Marian supporters when he came into the dictatorship. The Second Triumvirate instituted more proscriptions some forty years afterward after taking control of Rome from Caesar's murderers. The earliest use of the term itself was the English Civil War's Pride's Purge. In 1648, the moderate members of the English Long Parliament were purged by the army. Parliament would suffer subsequent purges under the Commonwealth including the purge of the entire House of Lords. Counter-revolutionaries such as royalists were purged as well as more radical revolutionaries such as the Levellers. After the Restoration, obstinate republicans were purged while some fled to New England. The French Revolution saw revolutionary factions purging each other. The most famous purge was Robespierre's Reign of Terror which ended with him being purged as well. After the fall of Napoleon, all those associated with revolutionary activity were purged. Purges are often associated with the Stalinism and Maoism regimes. Those who were purged (among them artists, scientists, teachers, people in the military, but also many long-time communism who dared to disagree with the party leadership) were sent to labor camps or execution (legal). The most notorious purge was the Great Purge initiated by Joseph Stalin during the 1930s. Deng Xiaoping was known for the distinction of returning to power multiple times after surviving multiple purges. The Nazis also engaged in purges, most notably in the Night of the Long Knives and the mass reprisals against Adolf Hitler's opponents following the July Plot. See also: CPSU purges Persecution
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==Purging in Wikipedia== What about "purging" a page in Wikipedia? I don't quite understand what that does, so I came here to find out...User:Pie4all88 02:03, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) :You mean to purge a page from your browser's cache? Basically, to save time, when you visit most pages, your web browser keeps a copy of the page on your computer in what is called the cache, so that if you visit the page again, the browser can simply bring up the copy that's on your computer instead of having to download the page from the web again, which takes time. However, this means that if a change was made to the page on the web, the page may be out-of-date in your browser cache; to purge the cache means to empty the cache to force the browser to get a new, up-to-date copy of the page from the web. User:Lowellian—User:Lowellian (User talk:Lowellian)
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