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Stalin's "great turn" - breaks with the Right Wing of the party and embarks on the policies proposed by Trotsky in the first place: rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture.
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History: Russia Timeline from 1924 to 53 (IGCSE Edexcel Syllabus)
Stalin's "great turn" - breaks with the Right Wing of the party and embarks on the policies proposed by Trotsky in the first place: rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture.
Stalin's "great turn" - breaks with the Right Wing of the party and embarks on the policies proposed by Trotsky in the first place: rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture.
Stalin becomes General Secretary (Trotsky turns down position of Vice
Chairman of the Party) 1924 Death of Lenin Lenins Funeral (Stalin organised it, heightened his reputation & damaged Trotskys) Kamenev and Zinoviev ally with Stalin to marginalise Trotsky Lenins Testament is read to the Central Committee (criticised a lot of Top Bolshevik leaders, especially Stalin not made public: Trotskys failure to make it public contributed to Stalins rise to power) Trotsky loses his position as head of Red Army (Commissar for War) 1926 Stalin allies with Bukharin and the Right Wing (wanted to continue with NEP, proceed slowly with industrialisation). Kamenev and Zinoviev lose their Politburo Posts. 1927 Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled from the party (Kamenev and Zinoviev were later readmitted, but with much reduced power.) 1928 Stalins Great Turn breaks with the right wing of the party and embarks on the policies proposed by Trotsky in the first place: rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture. Shakhty Trial 1928-32 First Five-Year Plan 1929 Collectivisation campaign begins (+ dekulakization campaign) 1932-33 Famine 1933-37 Second Five-Year Plan 1934-38 Great Purges 1934 Seventeenth Party Congress (Kirov perceived by many as a possible alternative to Stalin) Assassination of Kirov 1935 Stakhanov sets a coal mining record 1937-41 Third Five-Year Plan
1934-36 Yagoda was head of the NKVD
1936 Show Trial of Zinoviev, Kamenev and fourteen other top leaders. (1st ) 1936-38 Yezhov was head of the NKVD 1937-38 Purge of the Armed Forces
1937 Execution of Marshal Tuchachevsky
1938 Show trial including Bukharin, Rykov and Yagoda (2nd) 1938-53 Beria was head of the NKVD 1940 Execution of Yezhov 1939 (August 23) Nazi-Soviet Pact (September 1) Germany invades Poland. (France and Britain declare war on Germany two days later.) (September 17) USSR Annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and part of Poland 1940 Germany conquers Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, France and Norway Trotsky assassinated (from December 1939) Winter War: USSR attacked Finlandthey eventually won, but it took a long time and helped to convince Hitler that the USSR was weak. 1941 (April-May) Hitler invades Yugoslavia and Greece (delaying the planned invasion of the USSR) (June 22) Beginning of Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of USSR) (September) Siege of Leningrad begins (lifted in January 1944) (October) German army reaches the outskirts of Moscow (October) First snow near Moscow turns the roads to mud. (end of November) Temperatures near Moscow drop to -40C Germans discover they dont have winter clothes or winter fuel. (December 5) USSR launches a counterattack near Moscow (December 7) USA enters the war and allies with the USSR 1941 (September) to January 1944 Siege of Leningrad 1942 (August)- February 1943 Battle of Stalingrad 1943 (July-August) Battle of Kursk 1944 (January) Siege of Leningrad is lifted (Summer) USSR pushes German army out of USSR territory and moves into Eastern Europe
Czechoslovakia, Austria, and half of Germany are liberated/ occupied by the Red Army. 1945 (May 8) End of World War II in Europe (August 8-15) USSR Declares war on Japan and occupies Manchuria and North Korea 1946-48 Zhdanovshchina 1946-50 Fourth Five-Year Plan 1948-1991 Cold War 1949 (July) Leningrad Affair NATO formed Communists win Chinese Civil War and establish the PRC 1951 Mingrelian Case 1951-55 Fifth Five-Year Plan (success limited because a lot of resources were diverted towards the Cold War arms race with the US & too much effort was directed towards building showy construction projects) 1952 Professor Vinogradov Arrested 1952-53 Doctors Plot 1953 Death of Stalin 1955 Warsaw Pact Forms