Chronicle of Voronsky's Life

Moscow 1929-1937
1930, May 29 Readmitted to party.
1930, September Becomes senior editor of Imaginative Literature at Gosizdat.
1931 February 17 Voronsky, Lelevich, Freilikhman and others read and discuss Trotsky's book, "My Life."
1934, May Accepted into the Writers' Union.
1935, February 15 Expelled for maintaining ties with Sergei Zorin.
1935, February 17 Applies for readmission to party.
1935, March 15 Expelled by the October Regional Committee
1935, March 28 Letter to Moscow District Party Control Commission
1935, April 11 Party Control Commission confirms expulsion.
1935, May 26 Appeals to Ordzhonikidze (who forwards letter to Yezhov); writes to Yezhov.
1935, November 15 Appeals for reinstatement.
1936, April 11 Letter to Party Control Commission denouncing Trotsky-Zinoviev; praises Stalin's "genius."
1936, August 7 Party Control Commission confirms Voronsky's expulsion.
1936, August 19-24 "Trial of the Sixteen" in Moscow. Defendants include Zinoviev, Kamenev, Ter-Vaganian.
1936, October 28 Party Control Commission to Press Department: "You decide."
1937, February 1 Voronsky arrested by NKVD.
1937, August 13 "Tried" before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR; sentenced to be shot; probably executed immediately after sentencing.
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