Stalin Important Dates Flashcards

1
Q

Death of Lenin

A

1924

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

The Central Committee decide against publishing Lenin’s last testament

A

1924

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Petrograd renamed Leningrad

A

1924

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Trotsky dismissed as War Commissar

A

1925

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

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

A

1925

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Kirov replaces the sacked Zinoviev as Party Secretary in Leningrad

A

1926

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Zinoviev expelled from Politburo

A

1926

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Collectivisation is agreed at te 15t Party Conference

A

1927

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Stalin introduces the Urals-Siberian method of grain requisitioning

A

1928

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

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

A

1928

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Trotsky exiled from USSR, travelling to Turkey

A

1929

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

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

A

1929

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

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

A

1930

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Announced that unemployment in the USSR has been eliminated

A

1930

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Holodomor famine strikes in Ukraine

A

1932

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Zinoviev and Kamenev exiled to Siberia

A

1932

17
Q

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

A

1932

18
Q

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

A

1933

19
Q

The Second Five Year Plan begins

A

1933

20
Q

Peasants are allowed private plots

A

1934

21
Q

Kirov’s assassination and the start of the Great Terror

A

1934

22
Q

Zinoviev and Kamenev arrested

A

1935

23
Q

The Stakhanovite programme begins

A

1935

24
Q

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

A

1936

25
Q

Yezhov replaces Yagoda as Head of the NKVD

A

1936

26
Q

It’s announced that the USSR has attained Socialism

A

1936

27
Q

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

A

1937

28
Q

Tukhachevsky and other leading officers are executed

A

1937

29
Q

Bukharin, Yagoda, Rykov and others are tried and shot

A

1938

30
Q

The Third Five Year Plan begins

A

1938

31
Q

Procurement crisis (grain crisis)

A

1927-28

32
Q

Lack of shoes meant it was difficult to buy a pair

A

1930s

33
Q

Coal production increased from 35 mil tons to 128 mil tons

A

1927 - 1937

34
Q

Steel production increased from 4 mil tons to 18 mil tons

A

1927 - 1937

35
Q

Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev expelled from party

A

1927