However, in 1937, Stalin reversed this policy.

However, in 1937, Stalin reversed this policy.

* 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.

In 1937, Stalin had the Secretary-General of the CPY, Milan Gorkić, murdered in Moscow.

In June 1937, he said in a speech, " Let our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will of our people, against the will of the party of Lenin and Stalin, will be mercilessly crushed and destroyed.

Stalin unleashed the Great Terror campaign against alleged " socially dangerous " and " counterrevolutionary " persons that resulted in the Great Purge of 1936 – 1938 during which 1. 5 million people were arrested from 1937 – 1938 and 681, 692 of those were executed.

" He had earlier written to Stalin in 1937, " For the sake of Gorky I am asking you for mercy, even if he may be guilty of something ," to which Stalin noted: " We must not respond.

In 1936 and 1937, at the orders of Stalin, thousands of Red Army officers were dismissed from their commands.

Stalin opposed the Chinese Communist Party, and Sheng conducted a purge similar to Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.

Stalin allowed Chiang Ching-kuo to return to China with his Belarusian wife and two children in April 1937 after living in the USSR for 12 years.

The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and murder in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1937 to 1938.

Before the couple divorced in 1955, they lived in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938, while he served as the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union, under Joseph Stalin.

Between 1937 and 1939, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin deported over 200, 000 Koreans to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, fearing that the Koreans might act as spies for Japan.

In May 1937, Stalin charged pilots Chkalov, Baydukov, and Belyakov with the mission to navigate the first transpolar flight in history.

* Ignace Reiss, a GRU defector who sent a letter of defection to Stalin in July 1937, found dead in September 1937

Thereafter, under Stalin, he became Red Army commander in Belarus ( 1933 ); in Kiev ( 1935 ); in the northern Caucasus and then Kharkov ( 1937 ); and Kiev again ( 1938 ).

His choir participated successfully in the Universal Exposition of 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, Stalin commissioned him and lyrist Sergey Mikhalkov to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944.

Trotsky was forced into exile in 1929 by Josef Stalin and in 1937, due to efforts by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, he was granted asylum in Mexico.

During this time, he wrote a notable booklet on the Moscow Trials and translated Leon Trotsky's The Stalin School of Falsification ( in 1937 ) and his Problems of the Chinese Revolution ( originally published in 1932 ).

* The Stalin school of falsification by Leon Trotsky, New York, Pioneer Publishers 1937 ( introduction and notes only )

In September 1937 Stalin dispatched Anastas Mikoyan, along with Georgy Malenkov and Lavrentiy Beria, with a list of 300 names to Yerevan to oversee the liquidation of the Communist Party of Armenia ( CPA ), which was largely made up of Old Bolsheviks.

" It is interesting that seven years before the Great Terror, Stalin was testing the same accusations against the same victims -- a dress rehearsal for 1937 -- but he could not get the support.

He received the party's Blood Order in 1934 and was still occasionally used as a propaganda tool until about 1937, but he was never again allowed any real power.

* 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ; neither is ever seen again.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

There was some respite during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, but from 1937 the intensity of his anti-Semitic words and actions began to increase again.

Escher, who had been very fond of and inspired by the landscapes in Italy, was decidedly unhappy in Switzerland, and in 1937, the family moved again, to Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, Belgium.

Triggered by a dispute involving the Naim, the Bahrainis once again laid claim to the deserted town of Az Zubarah in 1937.

The Wachtruppen were expanded in 1935 into Wachsturmbanne and again in 1937 into three main SS-Totenkopfstandarten.

In 1936 cancer was diagnosed again, and subsequently, in early 1937, Mitchell gave up work, although he was often seen watching the Spitfire being tested.

In December 1937, Jung left Zurich again for an extensive tour of India with Fowler McCormick.

In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born.

Sherman appeared again in the US Army issue of 1937, a commemorative postage stamp jointly honoring Generals Sherman, Grant and Sheridan.

Raeder claimed that he was not involved in a conspiracy to commit aggression because Hitler's statements in the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 and again to senior officers including Raeder for plans for a war with Poland in May and August 1939 together with Raeder's own statements to Hitler about seizing Norway in October – November 1939 were all just mere talk that was not to be taken seriously.

Canada has no laws allowing for a regency, should the sovereign be a minor or debilitated ; none have been passed by the Canadian parliament and it was made clear by successive Cabinets since 1937 that the United Kingdom's Regency Act had no applicability to Canada, as the Canadian Cabinet had not requested otherwise when the act was passed that year and again in 1943 and 1953.

After regaining nearly 50 % of its losses, a longer bear market from 1937 to 1942 occurred in which the market was again cut in half.

Bradman won the toss on New Year's Day 1937, but again failed with the bat, scoring just 13.

The city's size was reduced again in 1937, and many of the northern city residents sued to get out of the city.

In 1927 the name was changed again to Tampa Shores, and finally in 1937 it was changed back to Oldsmar.

The low-lying town has been plagued by Ohio River floods in 1937 and again in 1997.

It was extensively remodeled in 1937 with WPA funds, and again in 1985.

It was made into a film in 1937 with Robert Montgomery, and again in 1964 with Albert Finney.

" As You Like It transferred to the New Theatre in February 1937 when he again played Orlando.

Personality conflicts broke up the band again in 1937, and LaRocca again retired from music.

However, in December 1937, the Naval and Air Staffs met again, and changed the priority to North Sea reconnaissance.