Russia Flashcards
1
Q
NKVD set up
A
1934
2
Q
Operation Barbarossa
A
June 1941
3
Q
Stalin wins power struggle
A
January 1929
4
Q
Trotsky resigns as commander of Red Army
A
1925
5
Q
Beginning of show trials
A
1936
6
Q
Germany attacks (start of WW2 for Russia)
A
1941
7
Q
Agreement between Czechoslovakia and GB/FR/USSR to protect her
A
1938
8
Q
Stalins death
A
1953
9
Q
Kursk
A
1943
10
Q
Start of WW2
A
1939
11
Q
Construction of Dneiper Dam finished
A
1932
12
Q
Third Moscow Show trial
A
1938
13
Q
Purge of Red Army
A
1937-8
14
Q
Purges of party members and officials
A
1937
15
Q
Trotsky expelled to Turkey
A
1929
16
Q
Purge of secret police
A
1938-9
17
Q
Third 5 year plan
A
1938-41
18
Q
Battle for Stalingrad
A
July 1942-February 1943
19
Q
Purge of right wing opposition
A
1938
20
Q
Second Moscow show trial
A
1937
21
Q
Purge on Leningrad party
A
1948
22
Q
Purges ended
A
1938
23
Q
Start of fourth 5 year plan
A
1945
24
Q
Second Five-Year plan
A
1933-37
25
New 'democratic' constitution
1936
26
Start of purges
1934
27
Stalin sent troops to Manchuria
1929
28
Murder of Kirov
1934
29
Siege of Leningrad
September 1941-January 1944
30
Work begins on White Sea-Baltic sea canal, the first project to employ forced labour
1931
31
Red army purged
1941
32
End of NEP
1928
33
Beginning of Stakhanovites
1935
34
USSR enters League of Nations
October 1934
35
First five year plan
1928-32
36
Start of gulag expansion
1929
37
Beginning of collectivisation
1928
38
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
August 1939
39
Lenin dies
1924
39
Machine and tractor stations introduced
1929
40
Famine (5 million deaths)
1932
41
Trotsky assassinated
1940
42
Purge of communist party
1951
43
Fifth five year plan
1951
44
Doctors plot
1952/3
