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Events relating to russia
Maxim Gorky returns to the USSR to a rapturous reception after seven years abroad
Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don
Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo
Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company
Stalin concludes his long-standing rivalry with Trotsky, expelling him from the USSR three years after removing him from the Politburo
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
Russia adopts a Five Year Plan aiming to boost industrial output by 200% within that period
25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories
Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton
The town of Maxim Gorky's birth, Nizhny-Novgorod, is renamed Gorky in his honour
Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre
Sergei Rachmaninov writes the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in his villa beside Lake Lucerne
USSR joins the League of Nations, after Germany leaves the organization
Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, is assassinated in his office, giving Stalin the pretext for his first massive purge
Leningrad's opera and ballet company is renamed the Kirov, in memory of the city's recently assassinated commissar
Stalin stages the first of the Moscow show trials, designed to eliminate any surviving high-level opponents
Maxim Gorky dies in suspicious circumstances while undergoing routine medical treatment in the USSR
On Stalin's orders Dmitry Shostakovich is attacked in Pravda for providing 'chaos instead of music'
Rachmaninov completes his Third Symphony, and records it two years later with the Philadelphia Orchestra
At the same time as the Moscow show trials, millions are purged from the Russian Communist party nation-wide
Russian film-maker Sergei Eisenstein directs Alexander Nevsky, with music by Prokofiev
Lavrenty Beria is appointed head of Stalin's state security organization, the NKVD
The first of many ballets to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet score is premiered in Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler demands a strip of territory through the Polish corridor to reunite Germany with East Prussia
