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| 1935 |
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| Alexei Stakhanov, a Donets miner, developed a new extraction method. Stakhanovite program set up to reward and motivate productive workers with bonuses and hero-of-labor pins. | 1 |
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| Jan. 15–17 |
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| Zinoviev, Kamenev, and several other leaders were tried for treason and conspiracy. They were convicted and imprisoned for terms of five to ten years. | 2 |
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| May 2 |
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| CONCLUSION OF THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE (See May 2). | 3 |
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| July 25–Aug. 20 |
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| The Seventh Congress of the Third International ordered Communists all over the world to form Popular Fronts with other “anti-Fascists.” However, the ultimate goals remained unchanged; the “historical mission” of the “working class at the head of all working people” was to unite “in a million-strong revolutionary army, led by the Communist International.” | 4 |
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