VI. The World Wars and the Interwar Period, 1914–1945 > C. Europe, 1919–1945 > 16. Russia (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) > 1938, March 2–15
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1938, March 2–15
 
Nicolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, and other prominent Bolsheviks were put on trial, accused of wanting to restore bourgeois capitalism and of joining with Trotsky in treasonable conspiracy. They were convicted and executed. More and more, Stalin trusted to the younger generation, which had never known anything but the Bolshevik regime and which was therefore less apt to criticize.  1
 
July 11–Aug. 10
 
Open warfare broke out between the Russians and the Japanese on the frontier of eastern Siberia and Manchukuo (See July 11–Aug. 10).  2
 
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The great Czech crisis (See 1938, March–May). The Russian government publicly announced its readiness to come to the assistance of the Czechs if France did so.  3
 
 
 
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