Dates Flashcards
The Triumvirate was aimed against?
Trotsky
Triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev formed?
1923-25
Lenin died?
Jan 1924
New opposition of Kamenev and Zinoviev against the duumvirate of Stalin and Bukharin formed?
1925-26
United opposition of Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky against Stalin and Bukharin formed?
1926-27
Trotsky was sent to exile?
1927
Grain procurement crisis occurred?
1927-8
What was the grain procurement crisis?
A significant shortage of food available for the towns
Government was paying very low prices for grain - so peasants were hoarding it
1st five year plan?
1928
The first five year plan was aimed at developing what?
Heavy industries
First show trial was?
The shakhty trial of 53 mining engineers
What was the Shakhty trial 1928?
53 mining engineers from the Donbass region were accused of industrial sabotage and conspiring with Germany
49 were convicted
5 were executed
When was there a massive drive to collectivise farms in the USSR?
1929-30
What were the problems with collectivisation?
Peasants killed and ate animals
Burned down homes
Destroyed farming equipment
Food shortages worsened
Dizzy with success was published?
March 1930
Dizzy success blamed?
Local officials for the chaos in the countryside
Raising quotas which weren’t being met
Union of soviet writers was created?
1932
Union of soviet writers replaced what?
The Russian association of proletarian writers
Ryutin affair was?
1932
2nd five year plan was ?
1933
The 2nd 5YP was to…
Improve agricultural output from collectivisation
More mechanical equipment
‘Showpiece’ development for propaganda
New factories
Wages system - rewarded those who worked hard
Kirov was murdered?
1934
Stalin claimed that kirov’s murder was part of?
A widespread opposition/conspiracy against the government used as an excuse for Stalin to purge
Collectivisation was almost completed?
1936
Yezhovschina occurred?
1936-38
Yezhovschina was the…
Great Terror, led by Yezhov (head of NKVD)
Trial of 16 occurred?
1936
Trial of 16 involved?
Kamenev and zinoviev
Trial of 16 accused kamenev and zinoviev of being members of the…
Trotskyite-Zinovievite counter-revolutionary bloc
With the conspiracy to murder Kirov and undermining 5YP
The trial of 17 occurred in?
1937
The trial of 17 included?
Radek and pyatakov
Charles with spying for nazi Germany
The trial of 21 occurred?
1938
The trial of 21 included?
Bukharin, rykov and yagoda
Accused of treason & sabotage
Accused of plotting to kill Lenin
3rd 5YP occurred?
1938
3rd 5YP devoted to?
Production of aircraft, tanks and weapons
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed?
August 1939
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pace was a …
Non-aggressive treaty signed by the nazis and the USSR
Included a secret deal to split Eastern Europe
Operation Barbarossa was launched?
1941
Operation Barbarossa was when?
Germany invaded the USSR
Lend lease occurred?
1941-45
Lend lease was the policy where the?
USA supplied goods to the USSR free of charge until the end of the war
Battle of Stalingrad occurred?
1942-3
In the battle of Stalingrad , Stalin ordered every able-bodied citizen to be supplied with a rifle to defend the city. This began a …
Counter-attack, smashed the German line, forcing them to retreat
Battle of Kursk occurred?
1943
The battle of Kursk was a?
Decisive victory
Capture of Berlin was?
May 1945
The 4th 5YP occurred?
1946
The 4th 5YP helped the USSR’s ?
Economy grow bigger
The USSR tested an atomic bomb in?
1949
Stalin died in?
1953
