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| 1927 |
| | | Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Stalin expels from the Communist party his main opponents, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky | |
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| 1928 |
| | | A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Stalin concludes his long-standing rivalry with Trotsky, expelling him from the USSR three years after removing him from the Politburo | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | 25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories | |
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| 1934 |
| | | To escape the Kuomintang forces, the Chinese Communist army begins the Long March from Jiangxi province to Shaanxi | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, is assassinated in his office, giving Stalin the pretext for his first massive purge | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Josip Broz, a leading member of the banned Communist Party of Yugoslavia, adopts the name Tito | |
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