📅 23 Mei 1924
The first Party Congress after Lenin’s death opened amid a leadership struggle and debates over party growth, discipline and economic policy. The meeting marked a transition in party leadership and...
📅 26 Òktober 1926
The conference opened as disputes over economic policy and the party opposition intensified. Its resolutions condemned Trotsky’s platform and backed the leadership’s position on industrialization...
📅 2 Desèmber 1927
The Fifteenth Congress opened amid the defeat of the Left and United Opposition. Delegates debated agricultural procurement, industrialization and the future of NEP. The Congress became a turning...
📅 4 Yüli 1928
The Central Committee plenum met from 4 to 12 July to review grain procurement and the broader economic situation. Its resolution called for restoring peasant confidence and stopping a return to...
📅 17 Yüli 1928
The Sixth Congress of the Communist International opened and adopted a more confrontational analysis of capitalism and colonialism. Delegates debated the failures of the Chinese united-front...
📅 19 Novèmber 1928
In a speech to the Central Committee plenum, Stalin criticized the “Right deviation” as the party debated industrialization targets, agricultural policy and the control figures for 1928–29. The...
📅 17 Novèmber 1929
The defeat of Nikolai Bukharin’s faction narrowed debate over the pace and costs of industrialization. Political centralization accompanied the drive to extract grain and labor.
📅 2 Mart 1938
Nikolai Bukharin and co-defendants faced a public trial centered on conspiracy charges and coerced testimony. The trial connected elite purges to the wider system of policing, denunciation, and fear.
📅 13 Mart 1938
The Military Collegium issued death sentences after the final major Moscow show trial. The verdict consolidated the destruction of much of the old Bolshevik leadership.
📅 25 Yanüari 1921
Lenin continued his dispute with Trotsky and Bukharin over trade unions, warning against methods that treated workers as passive objects of administration. His proposed safeguards remained within a...
📅 18 Desèmber 1925
The Congress marked Stalin’s victory in a major ideological and organizational struggle. The doctrine emphasized building socialism within the USSR, amid isolation, civil-war devastation, and...
📅 13 Mart 1938
Nikolai Bukharin and other defendants were convicted after a public trial marked by coerced confessions and sweeping conspiracy claims. The purges devastated the party, state institutions, military...
📅 2 Desèmber 1927
The congress opened after opposition leaders had been expelled and removed from party positions. Delegates endorsed a course toward accelerated industrialization and agricultural collectivization....
