key facts and figures 1924-29 Flashcards
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Stalin appointed General Secretary
April 1922
Triumvirate formed
May 1922
Lenin’s strokes
May and December 1922
March 1923 (close to death)
USSR formed
December 1922
Lenin’s death
January 1924
Stalin shifts to supporting the NEP
1928-29
‘Socialism in one country’ developed
1923
13th Party Congress (testament blocked)
May 1924
Trotsky critcises Kamenev and Zinoviev for not backing Lenin in 1917
October 1924
Kamenev and Zinoviev criticise Stalin for his move to the Right and support for the NEP at the 14th Party Congress
December 1925
What years did the ‘Duumvirate’ largely run the country?
1926-27
Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky form the United Opposition
1926
Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky are expelled from the Party
November 1927
Grain procurement crisis
Early 1928
Bukharin critcises the ‘excesses’ of officials following Stalin’s methods
April 1928
Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky expelled from the Politburo
November 1929
Trotsky murdered
1940
Stalin’s dictatorship fully established
December 1929
Debate over ‘permanent revolution’ particularly intense
1924
Trotsky forced out of his position as People’s Commissar for War
January 1925
The ‘Literary Discussion’
1924
Stalin offers to resign as General Secretary
December 1926
Crushing of the Chinese Communists in Canton and Shanghai
1927
When did Bukharin lose editorship of Pravda?
April 1929
End of the NEP
December 1927
‘Extraordinary measures’ demanded to deal with the grain procurement crisis
January 1928
First Five Year Plan launched
October 1928
Stalin declares ‘war against the kulaks’
December 1929
Grain procurement crisis stats
Amount of grain purchased by government down by 25% on the previous year in winter of 1927-28
Percentage of the peasant population was working on collective farms in 1928
5%
Target for electricity in the first 5YP
6x more electrical power by 1933 compared to 1928
GPU renamed
OGPU in 1926
Attack on social democratic parties in Europe launched
1929
Treaty of Berlin
1926
Stresemann’s death
1929
Workers were killed by the GMD in 1927
~30,000
