Events
Communist Manifesto Published (Marx + Engels)Grouping
Socialist Realism
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Height of "kulturnost""Chapaev" -- Furmanov"Cement" -- Gladkov"Chapaev""Soviet Literature: The Richest in Ideas, the Most Advanced in Literature" -- Zhdanov"Engineers of the soul" --StalinConstruction of the Moscow Metro begins"The Soviet Novel" -- Katerina ClarkPeriods
Soviet Socialist Realism as official styleThe Age of Lenin
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Russian Social Democrat's Labor Party founded (Lenin)July Days (3-5)Kornilov AffairOctober Revolution (23-26)Treaty of Brest-LitovskBeginning of Food Requisition DetachmentsKronstadt Rebellion"What is to be done" LeninApril Thesis (The Tasks of the Proletariat) - LeninDeath of Lenin"Letter to Stalin for Politburo of RCP(B) CC" - LeninPeriods
New Economic Policy (NEP)Revolutionary Russia (Lenin)Russian RevolutionRussian Civil WarRise of Stalin & Economic Plan
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Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky form Right OppositionLaunch of "The Great Break" or "The Socialist Offensive"Shakhty TrialKolkhoz CharterStalin Constitution"The Party" from "The Foundations of Leninism" -- Stalin"Problems of Party Leadership" -- Stalin"A Day in Magnitogorsk" -- John Scott (1932-37)"Problems of Agrarian Policy in the USSR" -- Stalin"Dizzy with Success" -- StalinLetter from Feigin to Ordzhonikidze"The Task of Business Executives" -- Stalin"Extract from a Report by Stalin to a Meeting of Moscow Communists on the Shakhty Trial" -- Stalin"Red Bread" -- Maurice HindusPeriods
First Five-Year PlanSecond Five-Year PlanIndustrializationCollectivizationThe Great Terror
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People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) foundedKirov AffairYezhov becomes head of NKVDMunich AgreementNKVD Order No. 00447Letter from Bukharin to StalinAppeal by Yezhov"Inside" from 'Hope Against Hope' - N. Mandelstam"NKVD operation order 'Concerning the punishment of former kulaks
and other anti-Soviet elements'" -- Yezhov"Strictly Secret Instructions Regarding the Manner of Conducting the Deportation of the Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.""“Prikaz (Decree) of the USSR People’s
Commissariat of Internal Affairs Issued in
1941”"Journey Into the Whirlwind" -- Eugenia GinzbergPeriods
FamineMoscow Show TrialsEzhovshchina "Time of Yezhov"PurgesWWI and post-WWII change
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Operation BarbarrossaBabi YarRise of German National Socialism (Nazism)Nazi-Soviet PactBeginning of Lend-Lease AidVictory DayKatyn ForestJewish Doctors PlotZhdanov dies (naturally)"The Meaning of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" -- Viacheslav MolotovPeriods
Siege of LeningradSpanish Civil WarWinter WarBattle of StalingradBattle of KurskFourth Five-Year PlanLeningrad AffairLate StalinismCold War
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Tehran ConferenceYalta ConferenceTruman DoctrineMarshall PlanNATO formedWarsaw Pact signedBerlin Wall construction beginsCuban Missile CrisisBay of Pigs Invasion"Iron Curtain" Speech -- Winston Churchill"Stalin on Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech" -- Stalin"Sources of Soviet Conduct" -- George KennanPeriods
Berlin AirliftsOrigins of the Cold Warpost-Stalin (deStalinization)
Kulturnost
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Zhenotdel (Women's Department of the Communist Party) closedBeginning of pronatalist campaginIsvetsia discussion on 1936 anti-abortion law"The Magic Tablecloth" -- Sheila Fitzpatrick"The Collective Family" -- MakarenkokulturnostPeriods
Zhdanovshchina "Time of Zhdanov""Great Patriotic War" (WWII)Nationalization policy
Thinking of Stalin & Stalinism: Individually and in Academia
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Diary of Stepan Filippovich PodlubnyStalin: A New World Seen Through One Man -- Barbusse"The Origins of Totalitarianism" -- Hannah Arendt"Stalinism as Revolution from Above" -- Robert Tucker"Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization" -- Stephen Kotkin"State Violence as Technique: The Logic of Violence in Soviet Totalitarianism" -- Peter Holoquist"The Nazi-Soviet War as a System of Violence, 1939-1945" -- Mark Edele and Michael Geyer
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