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1936 in Russia — Page 2
Explore 68 historical events and records for Russia in 1936.
Historical records for Russia in 1936
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Death of Mikhail Tomsky
Death of Mikhail Tomsky, commits suicide
International, 3rd
Germany and Japan conclude the so-called Anti-Comintern Pact, ostensibly to protect the world from the 3rd International
Metallurgical Technical School
Serves as director of the metallurgical technical school in Dneprodzerzhinsk.
Peter and the Wolf
Composes, "Peter & the Wolf"
Plot
Yezhov is made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot
Popular Front Debates
Engages in exile debates about democracy and anti-totalitarian alliances.
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
Purge
Stalin has Kamanev & Zinoviev purged & then executed. Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge"
Purge
Announces "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc". CP members are directed to renew their documents, "passive people" are rooted out.
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
Purge
In the new form of Party organisation, the Politburo, and Stalin in particular, were the sole dispensers of communist ideology.
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".
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.
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.
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
Purge
Death of Mikhail Tomsky, commits suicide
Purge
Made against "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc". 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
Purge
Made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot
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"
State Publishing House
Appointed Head of the State Publishing House
Suicide
Death of Mikhail Tomsky, commits suicide. Commits suicide rather than face counter-revolutionary investigations
The Comforter
Publication of "The Comforter"
The Revolution Betrayed
Publishes The Revolution Betrayed, analyzing Soviet bureaucracy and arguing for political revolution against Stalinist rule.
Three Deaths of Doctor Austino
Shalamov published his first short story, The Three Deaths of Doctor Austino, in the journal October.
Trial
Holds stage trials of old Bolsheviks
Trial
Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge"
Trial
Accusations are made against Zinoviev for his life during a show trial
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