AQA – AS GCE Historical Issues: Periods of Change Unit 2 HIS2L
The Impact of Stalin’s Leadership in the USSR, 1924–1941
Chronology
Chronology: Key Events in The Impact of Stalin’s Leadership in the USSR, 1924–1941
1924 |
Death of Lenin. |
1925 |
Trotsky dismissed as Commissar for War. |
1926 |
Zinoviev expelled from the Politburo. |
1927 |
Trotsky and Kamenev expelled from the Politburo. |
1928 |
Grain requisitioned by the Urals-Siberian method. |
1929 |
Trotsky exiled from the USSR. |
1930 |
Campaign against the kulaks accelerates. |
1932 |
The Great Famine. |
1933 |
One third of Party members are sacked. |
1934 |
‘Congress of Victors’. |
1935 |
Arrest of Zinoviev and Kamenev. |
1936 |
Stalin Constitution adopted. |
1937 |
Further show trials, including Radek. |
1938 |
Bukharin, Yagoda and Rykov tried and executed. |
1939 |
Stalin declares an end to the Terror. |
1940 |
Trotsky assassinated in Mexico. |
1941 |
The USSR is invaded by Germany. |