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Trotsky’s exile to Alma-Ata (1928)
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17 Jan 1928 — Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army, is carried by OGPU agents onto a train and sent to Alma-Ata, more than 3,000 km from Moscow. He kept writing to his supporters from Kazakhstan until the regime decided that even this exile was too close.
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- Stalin’s rise to power (chapter 1 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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