Five Year Plan
The 1st 5 yr plan is promised by the Communist Party
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
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Follow Joseph Stalin through 675 dated historical records for Russia.
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1927
Purge
When the XVth Party Congress made Opposition views incompatible with membership in the Communist Party, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters capitulated and renounced their alliance with the Left Opposition
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
Expels all opposition from the International during a Comintern Executive meeting
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Purge
Expels all opposition from the International during a Comintern Executive meeting. At the 15th Congress expels 75 of the Opposition & 18 Democratic Centrists
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
1928
Purge
50 engineers are charged with wrecking & espionage
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Pact between Kellogg-Briand Signatory Nations
War is outlawed & disputes must be settled peacefully. 65 states including Russia & the USA sign the Kellog-Briand Pact
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Economy of Russia
Breaks with the New Economic Policy & introduces 5 yr plans
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Economy of Russia
From 1928 to 1991 the entire course of the economy was guided by a series of Five-Year Plans
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Five Year Plan
The "Plan Era" of 5 year economic plans lasts from 1928-1939. Replaces the New Economic Policy with the 1st 5 Year Plan, the market is eliminated. Peasants are forced to join collectives or state farms. From 1928 to 1991 the entire course of the economy was guided by a series of Five-Year Plans. Detailed plans for food production are laid down by Gosplan
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Five Year Plan
The slogan "The five year plan" in 4 years is adopted as quotas are revised upwards
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The 9th Plenum of the Executive Committee begins the so-called "Third Period" lasting until 1935 as the Comintern proclaims that the capitalist system is entering the period of final collapse and as such
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The Comintern describes all moderate left-wing parties as "social fascists", and urges the Communists devote their energies to the destruction of the moderate left.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The Comintern proclaimed that the capitalist system was entering the period of final collapse, and that as such, the correct stance for all Communist parties was that of an highly aggressive, militant, ultra-left line.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The period, up to 1928, is known as the "Second Period", mirroring the shift in the USSR from war communism to the New Economic Policy.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
and urges Communists to devote their energies to the destruction of the moderate left. In 1928, the 9th Plenum of the Executive Committee began the so-called "Third Period", which was to last until 1935
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
the correct stance for all Communist parties is that of a highly aggressive militant ultra-left line & in particular the Comintern describes all moderate left-wing parties as "social fascists"
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Economy of Russia
Stalin, after consolidating power, ends the NEP in 1928. In order to ensure the success of the five year plans plan it is necessary to ensure that inputs from one part of the economy match outputs from another part of the economy, Gosplan achieved this by using a methodology called the system of material balances
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Five Year Plan
With the introduction of five-year plans Gosplan becomes responsible for their creation and supervision according to objectives set by the All-Russian Communist Party. In order to ensure the success of the five year plans plan it is necessary to ensure that inputs from one part of the economy match outputs from another part of the economy, Gosplan achieved this by using a methodology called the system of material balances
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Gosplan
With the introduction of five-year plans Gosplan becomes responsible for their creation and supervision according to objectives set by the All-Russian Communist Party. In order to ensure the success of the five year plans plan it is necessary to ensure that inputs from one part of the economy match outputs from another part of the economy, Gosplan achieved this by using a methodology called the system of material balances
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Meeting with The Chinese Communist Party Leaders to exercise
Meets the Chinese Communist Party Leaders to exercise his influence over them
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
New Economic Policy
Stalin, after consolidating power, ends the NEP in 1928
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Purge
50 engineers are charged with wrecking & espionage. At the "Industrial Party" trial many are charged with foreign industrial espionage
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Second Period
The period, up to 1928, is known as the "Second Period", mirroring the shift in the USSR from war communism to the New Economic Policy
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Social Fascism
The Comintern describes all moderate left-wing parties as "social fascists", and urges the Communists devote their energies to the destruction of the moderate left
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Social Fascists
The 9th Plenum of the Executive Committee begins the so-called "Third Period" lasting until 1935 as the Comintern proclaims that the capitalist system is entering the period of final collapse and as such
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Social Fascists
The Comintern describes all moderate left-wing parties as "social fascists", and urges the Communists devote their energies to the destruction of the moderate left.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Social Fascists
and urges Communists to devote their energies to the destruction of the moderate left
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Social Fascists
the correct stance for all Communist parties is that of a highly aggressive militant ultra-left line and in particular the Comintern describes all moderate left-wing parties as "social fascists"
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Third Period
It labelled moderate left-wing parties social fascists and urged communists to concentrate on destroying the moderate left.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Third Period
The Comintern declared that capitalism was entering final collapse and ordered communist parties to adopt an aggressive, militant, ultra-left policy.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Third Period
The Executive Committee's Ninth Plenum began the Comintern's Third Period, which lasted until 1935.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
1929
Exile of Joseph Stalin
Stalins proposal to exile Trotsky from Russia is accepted by the Politburo
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Exile of Joseph Stalin
Has Trotsky exiled to Turkey. Exiles Trotsky & Zinoviev, marks the end of legal opposition in the party. Exiles Trotsky & Zinoviev marking the end of legal opposition in the party
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Opposition
The word "opposition" is no longer used
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Litvinov Protocol
The Litinow Pprotocol, a non-aggression pact between Russia, Romania, Poland Lithuania and Estonia
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Britain & Russia resume diplomatic relations
Britain & Russia resume diplomatic relations
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Congress of Communist Party, 15th
The NEP is replaced by a 5 yr plan at the 15th Party Congress
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Economy of Russia
The NEP is replaced by a 5 yr plan at the 15th Party Congress. Kulaks respond to increased collectivization by reducing output & slaughtering stock
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Five Year Plan
The NEP is replaced by a 5 yr plan at the 15th Party Congress
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Pact between Kellogg-Briand Signatory Nations
Forestalls a possible formation of an anti-Soviet front by the Kellogg Pact states
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
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