Stalin Important Dates

Question 1

Death of Lenin

Answer 1

1924

Question 2

The Central Committee decide against publishing Lenin’s last testament

Answer 2

1924

Question 3

Petrograd renamed Leningrad

Answer 3

1924

Question 4

Trotsky dismissed as War Commissar

Answer 4

1925

Question 5

At the 14th Party Congress Stalin argues for Socialism in One Country whilst Bukharin says the peasants ‘should enrich themselves’

Answer 5

1925

Question 6

Kirov replaces the sacked Zinoviev as Party Secretary in Leningrad

Answer 6

1926

Question 7

Zinoviev expelled from Politburo

Answer 7

1926

Question 8

Collectivisation is agreed at te 15t Party Conference

Answer 8

1927

Question 9

Stalin introduces the Urals-Siberian method of grain requisitioning

Answer 9

1928

Question 10

The Shakhty show trials begin after being accused of sabotage by the OGPU

Answer 10

1928

Question 11

Trotsky exiled from USSR, travelling to Turkey

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

Stalin announces mass (compulsory) collectivisation and ‘liquidation of the kulaks’

Answer 12

1929

Question 13

Stalin’s ‘Dizzy with Success’ speech to slow down collectivisation

Answer 13

1930

Question 14

Announced that unemployment in the USSR has been eliminated

Answer 14

1930

Question 15

Holodomor famine strikes in Ukraine

Answer 15

1932

Question 16

Zinoviev and Kamenev exiled to Siberia

Answer 16

1932

Question 17

Socialist Realism proclaimed as the official art form and the Union of Soviet Writers is set up

Answer 17

1932

Question 18

A mass purge of the party begins - one third is expelled

Answer 18

1933

Question 19

The Second Five Year Plan begins

Answer 19

1933

Question 20

Peasants are allowed private plots

Answer 20

1934

Question 21

Kirov’s assassination and the start of the Great Terror

Answer 21

1934

Question 22

Zinoviev and Kamenev arrested

Answer 22

1935

Question 23

The Stakhanovite programme begins

Answer 23

1935

Question 24

A show trial of Kamenev and Zinoviev is held and they are shot

Answer 24

1936

Question 25

Yezhov replaces Yagoda as Head of the NKVD

Answer 25

1936

Question 26

It’s announced that the USSR has attained Socialism

Answer 26

1936

Question 27

A purge of the Red Army begins, and political comissars are attached to the army

Answer 27

1937

Question 28

Tukhachevsky and other leading officers are executed

Answer 28

1937

Question 29

Bukharin, Yagoda, Rykov and others are tried and shot

Answer 29

1938

Question 30

The Third Five Year Plan begins

Answer 30

1938

Question 31

Procurement crisis (grain crisis)

Answer 31

1927-28

Question 32

Lack of shoes meant it was difficult to buy a pair

Answer 32

1930s

Question 33

Coal production increased from 35 mil tons to 128 mil tons

Answer 33

1927 - 1937

Question 34

Steel production increased from 4 mil tons to 18 mil tons

Answer 34

1927 - 1937

Question 35

Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev expelled from party

Answer 35

1927