USSR Admission
The USSR joins the League and gains a Council seat.
Role range: 1922-1953
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Joseph Stalin Biography and Timeline — Page 5
Follow Joseph Stalin through 675 dated historical records for Russia.
Joseph Stalin, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1934
Assassination of Sergei Mironovich Kirov
The assassination of Kirov sparks off purges in Russia
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Purge
Kirovs assassin & 13 accomplices are tried & executed. From 1933-1934 the CP is reduced from 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 million members
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Trial
Kirovs assassin & 13 accomplices are tried & executed
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
1935
Trial
Zinoviev, Kamanev & 17 others are tried for the murder of Kirov
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Alliance USSR and France
The USSR & France sign a mutual assistance & non-aggression pact. The USSR & Czech sign a mutual assistance & non-aggression pact
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case
French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case of an attack by an European nation
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Pact between France and Soviet Union
French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case of an attack by an European nation
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Pact between Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia
Soviet-Czechoslovakian pact, valid only if France supports both parties
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Political Support
Soviet-Czechoslovakian pact, valid only if France supports both parties
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The seventh congress officially endorses the Popular Front against fascism. The seventh and last congress of the Comintern is held between July 25 and August 20 1935
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Popular Front
The seventh congress officially endorses the Popular Front against fascism
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Russia sells the Chinese Eastern Railway in northern Manchuria to Japan
Russia sells the Chinese Eastern Railway in northern Manchuria to Japan
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The Comintern abandons the membership policies established under the "Twenty-one Conditions" and begins to form coalitions, or popular fronts, with bourgeois parties
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
1936
Purge
CP members are directed to renew their documents, "passive people" are rooted out
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Occupation
At the League of Nations Russia proposes sanctions after occupation of the Rhineland
Role range: 1922-1953
Alliance Joseph Stalin and Spanish Republic
The Comintern agree to furnish volunteers & money to support the Spanish Republic
Role range: 1936-1939 – 1922-1953
Comintern
The Comintern agree to furnish volunteers & money to support the Spanish Republic
Role range: 1936-1939 – 1922-1953
Purge
Announces "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc"
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Reform of Policing
The secret police is absorbed into the ministry of the interior, NKVD
Role range: 1922-1953
Execution
Stalin has Kamanev & Zinoviev purged & then executed
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Purge
Yezhov is made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Alliance Russia and Republicans and Spain
Russia decides to supply the Republicans in Spain
Role range: 1936-1939 – 1922-1953
Russia warns it will only be bound to the same degree as
Russia warns it will only be bound to the same degree as Italy & Germany. Russia decides to supply the Republicans in Spain
Role range: 1936-1939 – 1922-1953
Germany & Japan argree to make common cause against Communism
Germany & Japan argree to make "common cause" against Communism
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Constitution of Russia
Joseph Stalin establishes a Federal State consisting of 11 Soviet Republics.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Constitution of Russia
Joseph Stalin establishes the USSR Supreme Soviet, supreme agency of state power in the Soviet Union.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Constitution of Russia
Supreme Soviet consists of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Constitution of Russia
The Supreme Soviet elects a Presidium the chairman of which becomes the Head of State.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Constitution of Russia
The Supreme Soviet is elected for 4 years and meets twice a year.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Constitution of Russia
The VTsIK, All-Union Central Exec Comm of the soviets becomes the Supreme Soviet.
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Supreme Soviet
Establishes the USSR Supreme Soviet, supreme agency of state power in the Soviet Union
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Bolshevik Party
Holds stage trials of old Bolsheviks
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Comintern
Germany and Japan conclude the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact, ostensibly to protect the world from the 3rd International
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
International, 3rd
Germany and Japan conclude the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact, ostensibly to protect the world from the 3rd International
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Promotes a united front with Kai-shek against fascism in Europe & imperialism
Promotes a united front with Kai-shek against fascism in Europe & imperialism in Japan
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Purge
Stalin has Kamanev & Zinoviev purged & then executed. Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge"
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Red Army
Involves a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and Government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs"
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Trial
Holds stage trials of old Bolsheviks
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Trial
Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge"
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.