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| 1928 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| At the "Industrial Party" trial many are charged with foreign industrial espionage |
| Feb 50 engineers are charged with wrecking & espionage |
| 1929 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Expels the "right opposition" ftom the CP |
| 1930 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 26th June Moscow Announces his murderous purges are "purifying the Soviet Union" |
| 1931 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 14 professors are charged with conspiracy |
| A number of ex-Mensheviks are charged with planning a counter-revolution |
| 1934 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| From 1933-1934 the CP is reduced from 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 million members |
| Kirov's assassin & 13 accomplices are tried & executed |
| 1936 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| About 2/3 of Communist leaders are shot or arrested |
| Moscow Show trials are held in Moscow during the "great purge" |
| Moscow Stalin has Kamanev & Zinoviev purged & then executed |
| Jan CP members are directed to renew their documents, "passive people" are rooted out |
| July Announces "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc" |
| 26th Sep Yezhov is made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot |
| 1936 | Tomsky, Mikhail | |
| Death of Mikhail Tomsky, commits suicide |
| 1936 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| July Made against "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc" |
| 1936 | Yezhkov, Nikolay Ivanovich | |
| Moscow Made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot |
| 1936 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| July Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc" |
| 1937 | Radek, Karl Bernhardovich | |
| Jan Moscow Show trials are held including Radek & Pyatakov |
| 1937 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Top generals & 1 in 3 of the Officer Corps are purged |
| Jan Moscow Show trials are held including Radek & Pyatakov |
| 1937 | Yagoda, Henrik | |
| Jan Exposed as a "Tsarist police spy, a thief & an embezzler" |
| 1938 | Bagirov, Mir Dzhafar Abassovich | |
| Moscow The only prominent Azerbaijani official to escape the Stalinist purges |
| 1938 | Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich | |
| Moscow Stalin has Rykov purged & then executed |
| 1938 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Moscow Stalin has Rykov purged & then executed |
| 1939 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Malenkov & Beria purge the Baltic States , 1939-1941 |
| 1939 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Malenkov & Beria purge the Baltic States , 1939-1941 |
| 1948 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Nov Leningrad Lenigrad is purged |
