USSR: Stalin Era

MOSCOW, Nov.18, 1933 (UP)-Soviet Russia, in formal diplomatic relations with the last of the world's great powers to accord recognition, surveyed the future today with satisfaction.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 1933 (UP) -- A rapid growth of Soviet-American trade and new alignments in world politics appeared today as the likely first fruits of renewed diplomatic relations between Washington and Moscow.

LENINGRAD, Russia, Dec.3, 1934 (UP) -- Ruthless extermination of enemies of the Soviet regime was proclaimed today because of the assassination of Sergei Maronovich Kirov, one of the high leaders of Communist Russia.

MOSCOW, Dec. 6, 1934 (UP) -- Sergei Kirov, veteran and well-loved Bolshevik leader, was given a hero's funeral today as the bullet-torn bodies of 66 government enemies, including a woman, attested the government's determination that his assassination was not to be followed by others.

MOSCOW, Dec. 7, 1934 (UP) - Josef Stalin, dictator of Russia, led the nation in

LONDON, Dec. 14, 1934 (UP) -- The Warsaw correspondent of The Daily Express telegraphs what he describes as "bloody details".of the executions of alleged White Guard plotters by Soviet officials in several Russian cities.

MOSCOW, Jan. 16, 1935 (UP) -- Josef Stalin's determination to crush the last vestige of opposition to his regime was made evident today when Gregory Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev and 17 other leaders faced trial for their lives before the dreaded military collegium of the Supreme Court.

MOSCOW, Jan. 18, 1935 (UP) - Josef Stalin ruled unchallenged throughout the 8,000,000 square miles of Soviet Russia today after the addition of 98 more names to the long list of those who have paid with liberty or life for the assassination of Sergei Kirov.

MOSCOW, March 3, 1938 (UP) - A plot to murder Josef Stalin and the highest officials of the Soviet regime was admitted today by one of the 21 defendants at Moscow's spectacular mass trial on charges of treason, sabotage and murder.

MOSCOW, March 5, 1938 (UP) - Christian Rakovsky, for years Russia's ace diplomat, asserted today at the mass trial of 21 Bolshevik leaders for treason that Great Britain accepted him as Russian ambassador only after learning that he was associated with Leon Trotsky.