Timeline of the Soviet Union Under Stalin
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When did the purges of 'undesirable elements' begin
1932
When were considered 'undesirable element'
Illiteracy and inactivity
When did Stalin announce the decree to abolish and combine all proletariat artistic and literary organisations into a single union
1932
Who was the first head of the Union of Soviet Writers
Maxim Gorky
When did Moscow launch a chistka
December 1932
What percentage of the party was expelled by 1934
22%
When was Socialist Realism proclaimed the definitive Soviet artistic method
1934
When was the 17th Party Congress
26th of February 1934
What occurred at the 17th party congress
Sergei Kirov was urged by his peers to take over as General Secretary
When was Sergei Kirov killed
1st of December 1934
Who was responsible for carrying out the purges in the Soviet Union
The NKVD
When was Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev arrested and expelled from the party
December 1934
Between 1935 and 1936 how many communist party members where expelled
Half a million
When was the first show trial
August 1936
Who were the two main people found guilty at the first show trial
Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev
When did Mikhail Tomsky kill himself
22nd of August 1936
When did Yezhov replace Yagoda as leader of the NKVD
September 1936
When did Yezhov arrange the arrest of Yagoda
1937
When was the second show trial
1937
Who were the two main people found guilty at the second show trial
Rytkin and Pyatakov
When did the purge of the red army begin
May 1937
When were the leading officers in the red army shot
June 1937
What was the NKVD order against 'anti soviet' elements
NKVD order 00447
What was the quota of anti-soviets to be shot under NKVD order 00447
28%
When was the 3rd show trial
1938
Who were the three main people found guilty at the third show trial
Bukharin, Rykov and Yagoda
When did Beria replace Yezhov as leader of the NKVD
23rd of November 1938
When was the 18th Party Congress
1939
What did Stalin announce at the 18th Party Congress
The end of the mass purge
When was Yezhov arrested
10th of April 1939
When was Yezhov executed
4th of February 1940
When was Trotsky executed
21st of August 1940
What is propaganda
The spread of information to convince someone of a particular point of view
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