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1925
 
   
The Central Committee of the USSR removes Trotsky from his influential post as War Commissar      
1925
 
    
The Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein completes his film about the 1905 revolution, The Battleship Potemkin       
1926
 
    
Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army       
1926
 
   
19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory      
1926
 
    
Russian World War I pilot Sergey Ilyushin begins a distinguished career as an aircraft designer       
1927
 
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Stalin expels from the Communist party his main opponents, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky       
1928
 
   
Maxim Gorky returns to the USSR to a rapturous reception after seven years abroad      
1928
 
    
Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don       
1928
 
    
Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo       
1928
 
    
Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company