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Establishment and Consolidation of Stalin's Rule

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    Party purge expels thousands of lower ranking party members

  • 16th Party Congress

    Signs of some opposition to Stalin

  • Ryutin Affair

  • Smirnov’s ‘anti-party group’

    Charged with attempting to replace Stalin

  • 17th Party Congress

  • Kirov affair

  • 1st show trial of the 16 + Great Purge starts

    September: Ezhov replaces Yagoda as head of NKVD (secret police)

  • 2nd show trial 17

  • 3rd show trial of the 21

  • 18th Party Congress

    Official end of the Great Purge

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