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The Bolshevik government enacts a policy of extermination of the Cossacks (8,000 are executed in the next two months)
It was the Bolshevik policy of systematic repressions against Cossacks of the Russian Empire, especially of the Don and the Kuban, between 1917 and 1933 aimed at the elimination of the Cossacks as a separate ethnic, political, and economic entity. This was the first example of Soviet leaders deciding to "eliminate, exterminate, and deport the population of a whole territory -
The ruble lost 96% of its pre-war value; Industrial production has fallen to 10%
A shortage of silver coins had perpetually dogged the Soviet economy in the 1920s and silver was becoming too expensive to use. -
Five million people have died during two years of famine, mostly in the lower Volga; the anti-religious campaign has killed 2691 priests, 1962 monks and 3447
The Russian famine of 1921–22, also known as Povolzhye famine, was a severe famine in Russia which began in early spring of 1921 and lasted through 1922. This famine killed an estimated 5 million. -
Lenin dies and is succeeded by Joseph Stalin
Lenin passes away from a Hemorrhagic stroke. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. -
The Soviet Union launches a campaign of eradication of Islam
The hujum campaign's purpose was to rapidly change the lives of Uzbek women so that they may participate in public life, paid work, education, and membership in the Communist Party. -
Stalin enacts the first Five-Year Plan for rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
list of economic goals, created by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. The plan took effect in 1932. -
1,778,000 people are convicted of crimes
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20,000 people are sentenced to death in the Soviet Union
Many were executed during the Great Purge in the 1930s. Many of the death sentences were pronounced by three-person commission of officials. The verdict of capital punishment in the Soviet Union was called the "Supreme Degree of Punishment. -
Five million people in Ukraine die of famine
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. -
The Gulag had 800,000 prisoners in camps and 300,000 in work colonies
The Gulag system was made in order to isolate and eliminate socially dangerous, disruptive, suspicious, and other disloyal elements, whose deeds and thoughts were not contributing to the strengthening of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Economic considerations were responsible for the mass arrests during the period of Stalinism.
