Stalin Important Dates Flashcards
Death of Lenin
1924
The Central Committee decide against publishing Lenin’s last testament
1924
Petrograd renamed Leningrad
1924
Trotsky dismissed as War Commissar
1925
At the 14th Party Congress Stalin argues for Socialism in One Country whilst Bukharin says the peasants ‘should enrich themselves’
1925
Kirov replaces the sacked Zinoviev as Party Secretary in Leningrad
1926
Zinoviev expelled from Politburo
1926
Collectivisation is agreed at te 15t Party Conference
1927
Stalin introduces the Urals-Siberian method of grain requisitioning
1928
The Shakhty show trials begin after being accused of sabotage by the OGPU
1928
Trotsky exiled from USSR, travelling to Turkey
1929
Stalin announces mass (compulsory) collectivisation and ‘liquidation of the kulaks’
1929
Stalin’s ‘Dizzy with Success’ speech to slow down collectivisation
1930
Announced that unemployment in the USSR has been eliminated
1930
Holodomor famine strikes in Ukraine
1932