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The second world war started
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By 1937 collectivization was almost completed, kulaks had been eliminated and the peasants were afraid of Communist powers.
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In 1929 Stalin began collectivising all farms (kolkhos). Another type of collectivisation were the state farms (sovkhos): owned completely by the state, peasants worked as labourers, so they received wages even if the farm did badly.
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In 1928 the economy recovered to the level of 1914.
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Under Stalin the state planned industry and agriculture with a commission called Gosplan. A Five-Year Plan set targets for all basic industrial factories and workers. They started in
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Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party
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In 1924 a new constitution established the USSR (Un
ion of Soviet Socialist Republics). Each republic had a government but they all had to be communist, and the system was run
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Lenin died in 1924
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In 1921 Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to restore order and increase prosperity after the chaos of Revolution, Civil War, and War Communism.
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The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War in 1921
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In 1918 Russia was divided into two factions
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In February 1917 riots broke out in Petrograd
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Disputes inside the government and the army led to
a coup by general Kornilov. These problems caused a new wave of strikes and demonstrations in July 1917, which were harshly repressed by Kerensky’s government. -
in 1916 the Tsar himself took
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In 1914 the Russian Empire joined World War I
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In 1905 Russia ́s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion
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On the 23rd of October (1917) a revolution took place
