1927 Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled
November from the party
1929 Bukharin removed from the Politburo
‘Stalin enrolment’ 1931
increasing party
membership ‘Chitska’ period 1934 1/5 of the party are expelled as ‘Ryutinites’
meaning 70% of non-violent after Ryutin was expelled for denouncing
joined after 1929 purging to clear Stalin
out after
collectivisation December Sergie Kirov, leader of Leningrad party, is
expelling 20% of murdered by Leonid Nickolayev believing
the party he was having an a air with his wife ->
thousands in the Leningrad party were
purged after an interrogation of Nikolayev
by Stalin and Kirov’s bodyguard/witness
was killed in a car crash with NKVD men
purging of the 1935
party focusing on
senior members
expelling 1/2
million members
Yezhovshchina 1937
period of ‘mass
purging of the Red purges’ evoking July NKVD order No.0047 sentenced over
Army but over terror 250,000 ordinary Russians to up to 10 years
11,000 members with arrests imprisonment and 28% to be shot
were reinstated occurring
(impracticality of national between 11pm August
ideology) sweeps and 3am and
against 1938 3rd show trial involving Bukharin, Rykov,
NKVD men
ethnic March Yagoda and 18 others accused of belonging
driving around in
minorities to a Trotskyite bloc -> 18 executed
black vehicles
including called ‘ravens’ 1939 more than 23,000 NKVD men murdered
over 400,000
Volga 1940 A hitman murdered Trotsky in Mexico on
Germans August Stalin’s orders
deported to
Siberia and
Central Asia
ff
November from the party
1929 Bukharin removed from the Politburo
‘Stalin enrolment’ 1931
increasing party
membership ‘Chitska’ period 1934 1/5 of the party are expelled as ‘Ryutinites’
meaning 70% of non-violent after Ryutin was expelled for denouncing
joined after 1929 purging to clear Stalin
out after
collectivisation December Sergie Kirov, leader of Leningrad party, is
expelling 20% of murdered by Leonid Nickolayev believing
the party he was having an a air with his wife ->
thousands in the Leningrad party were
purged after an interrogation of Nikolayev
by Stalin and Kirov’s bodyguard/witness
was killed in a car crash with NKVD men
purging of the 1935
party focusing on
senior members
expelling 1/2
million members
Yezhovshchina 1937
period of ‘mass
purging of the Red purges’ evoking July NKVD order No.0047 sentenced over
Army but over terror 250,000 ordinary Russians to up to 10 years
11,000 members with arrests imprisonment and 28% to be shot
were reinstated occurring
(impracticality of national between 11pm August
ideology) sweeps and 3am and
against 1938 3rd show trial involving Bukharin, Rykov,
NKVD men
ethnic March Yagoda and 18 others accused of belonging
driving around in
minorities to a Trotskyite bloc -> 18 executed
black vehicles
including called ‘ravens’ 1939 more than 23,000 NKVD men murdered
over 400,000
Volga 1940 A hitman murdered Trotsky in Mexico on
Germans August Stalin’s orders
deported to
Siberia and
Central Asia
ff
