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Russian Revolution
• Collective name for a series of Revolutions in Russia in 1917
• Destroyed the Tsarist autocracy
• The Tsar was removed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917 -
Bolshevik Revolution
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Lenin's new economic policy
• Allowed small business while the state controlled the rest -
Creation of the Communist Party
- based upon Marxism, a variant of the ideology formed by the sociologist Karl Marx in the 1840s
- largely organized by a man known as Vladimir Lenin
- After the Russian Revolutions the Communist Soviet Union developed
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Official establishment of the USSR
Founded,after the Russian revolution of 1917, with the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics, each ruled by local Bolshevik parties.
USSR - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
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Stalin's five year plan
• List of goals to increase economy between 1928 and 1932
• Build up heavy industry
• Develop collective farming systems -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
• Conflict US against Cuba and Russia
• October 1962
• after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for MRBMs and IRBMs (Ballistic missiles) -
Glasnost/ Perestroika
• introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev
• Glasnost allowed freedom of information in the activities of the government institutions
• Perestroika allowed more independent actions from the various ministries and introduced some market-like reforms -
End of communist party
Approximate Date • Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts to reform communist to be more democratic version
• Lead to the breakup of USSR
• In 1991 Republicans discussed a new relationship and formed the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and communism officially fell in Russia -
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Democracy of Russia implemented
• Congress of People's Deputies, was elected in March 1990 in a largely free and competitive vote http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/russian-democracy-comic.jpg
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Russian Stock Market Crash
Approximate Date • Partially caused by the first war in Chechnya that cost an estimated at $5.5 billion
• Declines in demand for crude oil and nonferrous metals.
