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Begins a policy of repression against universities after an attempt on the Tsars life
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Begins a policy of repression against universities after an attempt on the Tsars life
Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc"
The court found everybody guilty and sentenced the defendants to death, Trotsky in absentia. During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership
Yezhov is made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot
Accused of plotting to kill Lenin during the Brest Litovsk negotiations in 1918
A failed assassination attempt on Trotsky when gunmen fire on his villa
Trotsky survived a raid on his home by Stalinist assassins led by GPU agent Iosif Grigulevich, Mexican painter and Stalinist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Vittorio Vidale
Assassinated during what in 1953 would become the "doctors plot"
9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov
Stalin arrests & charges 9 Kremlin doctors for plotting to kill Russian leaders. Outbreak of the Doctors Plot
9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov
28 doctors & their wives are arrested
Dismisses the "doctors plot" as "provocation & fake"
Claims that the doctors confessions had been elicited by torture & were false
Says that the plot was instigated by Stalin to begin an anti-semitic purge
A gunman opens fire on Gorbachev during the Revolution Day parade
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