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On this day, the Treaty of Bucharest was signed.The treaty ended the Russo-Turkish War, which had been going on for 6 years.
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Treaty of Paris signed to return cahul, bolgrad, and Ismail to Moldova
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Emancipation Edict ends serfdom. Also rapid industrialisation leads to growth of working class movement and spread of revolutionary ideas.
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In the Treaty of Berlin the Kingdom of Romania agreed to return Cahul, Bolgrad, and Ismail to the Russian Empire.
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Separate Ukrainian states temporarily form, leading to civil war and an anarchist group called the Black Army.
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The Civil war had a great impact on Russia as the economy was already doing bad. At the end of the Civil war 5.5 million russians were dead and the land was disastrous.
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The Bolshevik government was in charge of the Red Terror which executed and arrested many people . It was a group of communist lead by Lenin, Who made peace agrements with Germany after they dropped out of WW1.
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The civil war ends with Lenin's victory .millions died of starvation, the population of Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg today) has dropped from 2.5 million in 1917 to 0.6 in 1920.
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After many attempts at independence, Ukraine become ones of the founders of the Soviet Union.
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More than 5 million people die in this famine which lasted over a year. The famine spread around and even reached parts of russia where hundereds of people died of starvation also.
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Stalin believed the white sea and the Baltic sea being connected would be highly benificial to the developing USSR. Tens of thousands of men lost their lives in the construction project. most of the men working on the project were Gulag prisoners.
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Approximately 10 million Ukrainians die during the Holodomor ("Great Famine") after the peasants' food is taken by the secret police.
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The "Big 3", Winston, CHurchill, and Stalin, met for the 2nd of the 3 confrences of WW2. They dicussed the re- establishment of the nations post-war in Europe.
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Russian troops capture some cities in Berlin in the Berlin War. The Russians entered Berlin in three directions and soon later captured Berlin.
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Ukrainian SSR becomes a founding member of the United Nations.
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After Josef Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev becomes leader of the USSR, striving to improve relations between the Ukraine and Russia.
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70% of radiation from chernobyl nuclear disaster enters belarusian territory.
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Belarus declared its independence from Russia on March 25, 1918 (an independence which lasted about 10 months) and again from the Soviet Union on July 27, 1990.
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Moldova Declares Independence
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Alexander Lukashenko elected president of belarus
