1923- Stalin forms the triumvirate/ Troika with Zinoviev and Kamanev.
1924- Death of Vladimir Lenin.
1925- Trotsky defeated. However Trotsky tries to retaliate with Bureaucracy. Stalin ;leaves the triumvirate late 1925.
1926- Creation of the duumvirate, including Stalin, Bukharin.
1926- Newly formed Triumvirate of Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamanev VS the Duumvirate.
1927- Stalin leaves the Duumvirate.
1928-Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
1928- Start of the first 5YP.
December 1929- Collectivisation begins in the soviet union.
1929- Stalin promoted liquidation of the kulaks. Death of 7,000,000 and 10,000,000 sent to Siberia Gulag

1928-32- Chitska; peacefully expelling 20% political members of the party.
31 December 1932- End of the first 5YP, only lasted four years.
1933- Start of the second five year plan.Focused on heavy industry, electricity and most communication.
8 February 1934- Seventeenth party congress, Sergey Kirov gained 1,225 votes while Stalin had gained 924 votes. Kirov more favoured by the politburo.
2 December 1934- Sergey Kirov assassinated.
1934- Start of the great purges.
Execution of 93 members of the politburo out of 193.
1935- Alexey Stakhanov record, he had mined 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift.
1935- Arrest of Zinoviev and Kamanev.
1936- Trial of the sixteen, Zinoviev and Kamanev placed under pre-decided trials.
1936- Stalin's new constitution for Consolidation of power
1937-38- Yezhovchina.
1937- Trial of the seventeenth.

1937-End of the second five year plan
1938- Trial of the twenty one, Bukharin, Rykov and Yagoda tried among others.
1938- Start of the third year plan, Focused on Re-armament and advancements in military.
24 August 1939- Molotov Ribbentrop pact signed.
1 September 1939- German Invasion of Poland.
24 September 1939- Soviet invasion of Poland
22 June 1941 04:00- Invasion of the soviet union. Operation Barbarossa
November 1941- Lend lease from Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. 12% Aeroplanes, 10% Tanks and finally 2% artillery.
23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943- Battle of Stalingrad. Destruction of Hitler's sixth army. Operation Uranus
5 July- 23 August 1943- Battle of Kursk, had resulted in a full scale panzer attack.
August 1949 Russia detonates its first Atomic bomb in Kazakhstan.

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Note on Stalin timeline., created by jake hornsey on 01/12/2014.

Stalin timeline.