16 February 1934Trade TreatyJoseph Stalin
Trade Treaty signed between Britain & Russia
Historical records for Russia in 1934, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Trade Treaty signed between Britain & Russia
Trade Treaty signed between Britain & Russia
Kerensky continues political activity connected with cold war commentary.
Appointed Peoples Commissar for Defence
Litvinov also actively facilitates the acceptance of the USSR into the League of Nations where he represents his country from 1934-1938
Russia joins the League of Nations
Russia takes its seat on the Council of the League of Nations
The USSR is admitted into the League of Nations
Represents the USSR as it enters the League.
The USSR joins the League and gains a Council seat.
Assassination by Stalins men is used by Stalin to begin his party purges
The assassination of Kirov sparks off purges in Russia
Death of Sergei Mironovich Kirov, assassinated
Publication of "And Quiet Flows the Don"
Birth of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin
Appointed Member of Central Committee
Appointed Member of Central Committee
Appointed Member of Central Committee Secretariat
Is elected a member of the Communist Party Central Committee.
Appointed Chairman of the Central Committee
Observes blue light emitted when charged particles move rapidly through a medium.
Promotes collective security after the USSR enters the League.
Describes Stalin as "our genius leader"
Appointed Editor of Izvestiya
Writes For the Fourth International while campaigning to create a new revolutionary international independent of the Comintern.
Agrees a mutually defensive pact with France
The achievement marks luminescence in water as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Advances into senior Moscow party leadership during his rapid rise through the Communist hierarchy.
Appointed Head of the NKVD, Secret Police
Kirovs assassin & 13 accomplices are tried & executed. From 1933-1934 the CP is reduced from 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 million members
Heads a police organisation to control the militia, concentration camps & intelligence
Assumes overall leadership of the Communist Party organization governing the Soviet capital.
Publication of "The Crucifixion of Liberty"
Publishes The Crucifixion of Liberty on the Russian Revolution.
Kirovs assassin & 13 accomplices are tried & executed
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