1938

• Economy


  • Start of 3rd FYP
  • Labour books
• Control


  • Yezhov replaced by Beria
  • 1935-38 gulag population from 800,000 to 9.5 million people
  • 1936-38 expulsion of 850,000 Party members
  • Trial of 21 – Bukharin, Tomsky suicide, Rykov plot to assassinate Stalin, overthrow USSR on German orders
• International relations


  • German annexation of Austria – Britain and France against it; Prime Minister Chamberlain believed appeasement of Hitler was best for peace
  • Munich conference – Italy, BR, FR, Germany discuss Germany's claims to Sudetenland (German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia)