📅 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...
📅 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.
📅 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...
