1937

• End of 2nd FYP

  • Completion of Moscow-Volga Canal
  • Increased wages, still lower than 1928
  • 'Worker and Kolkhoz Woman' statue by Vera Mukhina – worker-heroes propaganda
• Society

  • Yezhovshchina
  • High divorce rate despite 91% men 82% women in 30s married
• Control


  • Trial of 17 – 17 senior Party members plotting with Trotsky
  • Military purge – Tukhachavesky; 74 military officers of the Red Army
  • 30th NKVD Order 00447 – arbitrary arrests w/o trial, no central control over their actions, outline a quota system
  • 100,000 arrested; 14,000 sent to gulags
• International relations


  • Stalin prolonged Spanish Civil War – wear down Italian and German forces
  • Japan invasion of China and 1931 Manchuria – threat to Stalin