Dates Flashcards
When was Lenin’s Testament written?
1922
When did Lenin die?
21st January 1924
When was Lenin’s funeral?
27th January 1924
When did Trotsky lose his job as Commissar for War?
1925
When did Kamenev, Zinoviev, and Trotsky form the United Opposition?
1926
When were Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled from the party?
1927
When was Trotsky expelled from the Soviet Union?
1929
When did Stalin become the undisputed leader of the USSR?
1929
When was Pytor Voykov (Soviet diplomat) assassinated?
1927
When was the Grain Procurement Crisis?
1927-8
When was the first Five Year Plan?
1928 - 1932
When was the second Five Year Plan?
1933 - 1937
When was the third Five Year Plan?
1938 - 1941
When does Stalin give the order to ‘liquidate the kulaks as a class’?
1929
When does Stalin decide that the first Five Year Plan targets should be met by 1931?
1929
When does the USSR enter the Second World War against Germany?
1941
When is the Bolshevik Party renamed the Communist Party?
1952
When did Ford Motor Company help the Soviet car industry produce 140,000 cars?
1932
When was the Great Famine?
1932-33
When was Cement by Fyodor Gladkov published?
1925
When were the Great Purges?
1930s
When did Stalin’s wife, Nadezhda Allilyueva commit suicide?
1932
When was the Ryutin Platform?
1932
When was Yezhov named a member of the Purge Commission?
April 1933
When was the 17th Party Conference?
1934
When were Stalin and Kirov both given the title Secretary of Equal Rank?
1934
When does the Cheka become the NKVD?
1934
When was the film Chapaev released?
1934
When was Kirov murdered?
1st December 1934
When did Yezhov become the leader of the NKVD?
1936
When was the Trial of Sixteen?
1936
When was How the Steel was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky published?
1936
When was the Trial of the Seventeen?
1937
When did Beria become the leader of the NKVD?
1938
When were the purges of the NKVD?
1938
When was the Trial of the Twenty-One?
1938
When was Yezhov arrested?
1939
The Short Course of the History of the All Union Communist Party and The Short Biography of Stalin were ordered to be written in what year?
1939
When was the Russo-Finnish war?
1939-40
When was Yezhov executed?
February 1940
When was Trotsky murdered?
21st August 1940
When was the census that highlighted that there were over 180 national groups living in the USSR?
1926
When was Gorky Park built?
1928
When was the Zhenotdel closed down?
1930
When did the rationing of bread end?
1935
When was the Family Code published?
1936
When was the Housewife’s Movement launched?
1936
When did Stalin make a speech declaring that women were now equal to men?
1937
When were over 170,000 ethnic Koreans deported to central Asia?
1937
When did factories move to a seven day week?
1939
When was the Labour Code introduced?
1940
When were 89,000 Finns deported?
1941
When were the Volga Germans deported to central Asia?
1941
When did Ekaterina Furtseva become a member of the Poliburo?
1957
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?
23rd August 1939
When did Operation Barbarossa begin?
22nd June 1941
When was Order No. 270 passed?
16th August 1941
When was the Siege of Leningrad?
September 1941 - January 1944
When did Stalin make the decision to stay in Moscow during WWII?
October 1941
When did General Zhukov launch a counter attack at the Battle of Stalingrad?
December 1941
When was Stalin made Man of the Year by Time Magazine?
1942
When was Order No. 227 passed?
28th July 1942
When was the Battle of Stalingrad?
23rd August 1942 - 2nd February 1943
When did Operation Uranus begin?
19th November 1942
When did Operation Little Saturn begin?
16th December 1942
When was Red Army Day celebrated in Britain?
February 1943
When was the Battle of Kursk?
5th July 2943 - 23rd August 1943
When was the deportation of citizens in Chechnya to Siberia?
February 1944
When was the Fourth Five Year Plan announced?
1946 until 1950
When did the Dnieper Dam continue making electricity?
1947
When was the first Soviet atomic bomb tested?
1949
