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| 1935 |
| | | 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 |
| | | Jan. 15–17 |
| | | 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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| | | CONCLUSION OF THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE (See May 2). | 3 |
| | | July 25–Aug. 20 |
| | | 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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| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth
edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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