Purge
Announces "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc". CP members are directed to renew their documents, "passive people" are rooted out.
Role range: 1922-1953
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1936
Purge
Enforces a ban on party factions and banned those party members who had opposed him, effectively ending democratic centralism. Communist heroes like Tukhachevsky and B‚la Kun, as well as the majority of Lenins Politburo, were shot for disagreements in policy. About 2/3 of Communist leaders are shot or arrested. 400,000 people are expelled from the Party
Role range: 1922-1953
Purge
In the new form of Party organisation, the Politburo, and Stalin in particular, were the sole dispensers of communist ideology.
Role range: 1922-1953
Purge
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: 1922-1953
Purge
The most infamous case is that of Leon Trotsky, whose family was almost annihilated, before he himself was killed in Mexico by NKVD agent Ramon Mercader, who was part of an assassination task force put together by Special Agent Pavel Sudoplato.
Role range: 1922-1953
Purge
The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenge from past and potential opposition groups, including left and right wings led by Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin.
Role range: 1922-1953
Civil War
Russia sends arms & advisers to the Republicans
Role range: 1936-1937 – 1922-1953
1937
Purge
Show trials are held including Radek & Pyatakov
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Peace
An Armistice is declared between Japan and the Soviet Union after outbreak of border fighting
Role range: 1922-1953
Purge
Top generals & 1 in 3 of the Officer Corps are purged
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
1938
Execution
Stalin has Bukharin purged & then executed
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Political Support
Stalin promises to support Czech if it is attacked by Germany
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Border Settlement at Moscow
Russian troops begin to clash with the Japanese on the border of Manzhouguo
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Signs the Geraman-Russisan Non Aggression Pact with Ribbentrop in Moscow
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Economy of Russia
The 3rd Five-Year Plan (1938-1941) was not as successful, due to the purging of leading Gosplan members and the outbreak of World War II
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Execution
Stalin has Rykov purged & then executed
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Five Year Plan
The 3rd Five-Year Plan (1938-1941) was not as successful, due to the purging of leading Gosplan members and the outbreak of World War II
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Purge
Stalin has Rykov purged & then executed
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Massacre
NKVD troops massacre over 10,000 Ukrainians
Role range: 1922-1953
1939
Munich Agreement
Protests after German legions move on Prague in contravention of the Munich Agreement
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Of the Munich Agreement
Protests after German legions move on Prague in contravention of the Munich Agreement
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Invasion of Czech
Protests after German legions move on Prague contravening the Munich Agreement
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Munich Agreement
Protests after German legions move on Prague contravening the Munich Agreement
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Siege of Prague
Protests after German legions move on Prague contravening the Munich Agreement
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Alliance Agreement
The Soviet Union offers a Soviet-British-French alliance which would guarantee the integrity of Poland, the consulations are unproductive
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Alliance Soviet-British-French alliance
The Soviet Union offers a Soviet-British-French alliance which would guarantee the integrity of Poland, the consulations are unproductive
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Alliance Agreement with France & Britain
Russia offers a tripartite alliance with France & Britain
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1938-1945
Alliance Russia and France and Britain
Russia offers a tripartite alliance with France & Britain
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1938-1945
Declaration of War
Russia mobilizes against Japan on the border between Manchuria & Outer Mongolia
Role range: 1922-1953
Alliance Agreement with Germany maybe possible
At a meeting of the Politbureau Stalin says an alliance with Germany maybe possible
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Alliance Joseph Stalin and Germany maybe possible
At a meeting of the Politbureau Stalin says an alliance with Germany maybe possible
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
International Agreement
Poland refuses Russia passage, a precondition of an Anglo-Franco-Soviet agreement. Hitler sends Stalin a telegram pressing for a pact
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Invites Ribbentrop to Moscow for 23 August. Hitler cables Stalin accepting the draft NAZI-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Trade Agreement
It is anounced that Germany & Russia have concluded a commercial agreement
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Includes secret protocols dividing Europe into zones of influence
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Rule of Baltic Sea
The Nazi-Soviet Pact gives Russia eastern Poland, Finland & Baltic States
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Rule of Finland
The Nazi-Soviet Pact gives Russia eastern Poland, Finland & Baltic States
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Rule of Poland
The Nazi-Soviet Pact gives Russia eastern Poland, Finland & Baltic States
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1922-1953
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Russia & Germany will not attack each other for 10 yrs with an option for 5 more yrs
Role range: 1917-1991 – 1934-1945
Battle of Nomonhan
The Japanese are prevented from making any further incursions into Russian territory. In 1 day the Japanese suffer 50,000 casulties, their worst ever defeat. Defeat by Russia convinces the Japanese that they cannot fight against the Russians
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
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