| 10 March 1939 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Stalin addresses the Eighteenth Party Congress on foreign policy
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| 8 December 1938 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Nikolai Yezhov replaced as head of the NKVD
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| 17 November 1938 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Central Committee and Sovnarkom halt mass operations and troikas
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| 13 March 1938 |
Soviet Union
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Stalin
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The third Moscow trial concludes
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| 13 March 1938 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Bukharin and co-defendants sentenced
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| 2 March 1938 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Trial of Bukharin and other alleged “right-Trotskyists” opens
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| 15 January 1938 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Supreme Soviet convenes for its first session
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| 12 December 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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First Supreme Soviet election held under the 1936 Constitution
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| 12 October 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Arrests of Polish and other national minorities widen across the Union
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| 8 September 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Government fixes measures for deporting Korean residents
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| 11 August 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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NKVD Order 00485 launches the Polish operation
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| 30 July 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Stalin
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NKVD Order 00447 launches a mass operation
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| 30 July 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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NKVD Order 00447 authorizes a mass operation
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| 11 June 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Stalin
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A military tribunal sentences senior Red Army commanders
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| 11 June 1937 |
Soviet Union
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Soviet Union history
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Tukhachevsky and senior Red Army commanders sentenced
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