Stalin's Russia 1929 - 1953

1920's

1928 - Collectivisation begins

Oct. 1928 - First Five Year Plan begins

Dec. 1932 - First FYP ends

Sep. 1939 - World War II begins

1939 - Nazi-Soviet Pact signed

June 1941 - Germany attacks Russia - Operation Barbarossa 

1945 - WWII ends

1953 - Stalin dies

1945 - Cold War starts

Jan. 1933 - Second FYP begins

Dec. 1937 - Second FYP ends - declared complete nine months ahead of time

1938 - Third FYP begins

1941 - Third FYP ends - interrupted by the war

Dec. 1929 - announced plans to liquidise the Kulaks 

By mid 30's - Kulaks as a class had gone

1929 - Stalin gains full power

Dec. 1936 - new Soviet Constitution adopted

By 1937 - USSR's economy was second to the USA's

By 1937 - USSR virtually self sufficient

1932 - Stalin's purges begin - The Early Purges

1933/1934 - Stalin centralised all law enforcement - all came under the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs)

1934 - Post Kirov Purges begin

1st Dec. 1934 - Sergei Kirov shot 

1934 - a successful purge changes the make-up of the party

1930's

1935 - no area of the gov. that Stalin doesn't control

1936 - Post Kirov Purges end / The Great Purge begins

1939 - The Great Purge ends

May 1937 - Conspiracy within Red Army announced - results in a purge of the armed forces 

Between 27th Feb. 1937 and 12th Nov. 1938 - 3,167 people executed

Between 1947 and 1953 - 1 million people died in various purges 

1941 to 1945 - Stalin's purges continue

1934 - USSR joins League of Nations

Sep. 1939 - USSR and Germany agree to split Poland between them

By 1941 - USSR had regained all territories lost in WWI

1942/1943 - Battle of Stalingrad 

1943 - Battle of Kursk 

1945 - Decided at Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that prisoners of war would be sent home - Soviets who fought for Nazis would be executed

1947 - The Marshall Plan

1947 - The Truman Doctrine

1940's

1950's

GovernmentEconomicalPurgesDeathMajor Event

21st Aug. 1940 - Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico

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