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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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| 1929 |
| | | Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Russia adopts a Five Year Plan aiming to boost industrial output by 200% within that period | |
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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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| c. 1931 |
| | | Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The town of Maxim Gorky's birth, Nizhny-Novgorod, is renamed Gorky in his honour | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Sergei Rachmaninov writes the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in his villa beside Lake Lucerne | |
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| 1934 |
| | | USSR joins the League of Nations, after Germany leaves the organization | |
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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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