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| 1935 |
| | | Mao Zedong wins control over the Chinese Communists during the Long March | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Leningrad's opera and ballet company is renamed the Kirov, in memory of the city's recently assassinated commissar | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | Kim Il Sung leads a Communist guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of Korea | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Stalin stages the first of the Moscow show trials, designed to eliminate any surviving high-level opponents | |
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| 1936 |
| | | On Stalin's orders Dmitry Shostakovich is attacked in Pravda for providing 'chaos instead of music' | |
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| 1937 |
| | | At the same time as the Moscow show trials, millions are purged from the Russian Communist party nation-wide | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Lavrenty Beria is appointed head of Stalin's state security organization, the NKVD | |
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| 1940 |
| | | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| 1940 |
| | | In To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson discusses the development of socialism and revolution, culminating in Lenin and Trotsky | |
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| 1940 from April 4 |
| | | More than 4000 Polish officers are massacred at Katyń on Stalin's orders | |
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