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Polish - Soviet War
Soviet Russia and Ukraine vs Second Republic of Poland for control of modern day Ukraine. -
Lenin Dies
Stalin rises to power, along with Zinoviev and Kamenev. -
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5 Year Plan
Centralized economic plans following communist principles. -
GULAG formed
Central Administration Department of the Soviet Secret Service -
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Soviet Famine
Major grain-producing areas suffered, USSR forced Ukraine to meet irrational quota of food exports. -
NKVD
Soviet Secret Police was formed, conducted mass extrajudicial executions, ran the Gulag system of forced labor camps and suppressed underground resistance. -
Trial of the 16
The Trial of the 16 was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1945. -
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Moscow Trials
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Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center
Traditionally considered one of the key trials of the Great Purge -
Trial of the 21
The last of the Moscow Trials -
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WWII
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Siege of Leningrad
Soviet Russia loses 11% of industrial output to the Germans -
Battle of Stalingrad
Turning point of WWII, Germans never regained initiative in the East, withdrew forces in the West -
Joseph Stalin Dies
