Rise and Fall of Soviet Union

By Nick Pritchett

  • Lenin Returns

    Lenin Returns
    Lenin returns to Russia from Germany with many other revolutionaries.

  • Assassination Attempt

    Assassination Attempt
    After speaking at a factory in Moscow, Lenin was shot 2 times by a member of the Social Revolutionary Party and survived the shooting.

  • Bolsheviks Take Moscow

    Bolsheviks Take Moscow
    The Bolsheviks overthrow the government, capturing government buildings. Eventually controlling all of Moscow

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    Civil War breaks out between the Reds and the Whites. This war will tear Russia apart for 3 years.

  • Soviet Union Formed

    Soviet Union Formed
    On December 30, 1922 the Soviet Union is formed by combining Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

  • Lenin Death

    Lenin Death
    Lenin Dies at the age of 54 due to a brain hemmorhage. Joseph Stalin is his successor and now leader of the Soviet Union

  • USSR Joins League of Nations

    USSR Joins League of Nations
    The Soviet Union was accepted into the League of Nations on September 18, 1934 as a permanent council member.

  • Non-Agression Pact

    Non-Agression Pact
    The Soviet Union and Germany signed a non-agression pact which would catapult the USSR right into the middle of World War 2.

  • Stalin Dies

    Stalin Dies
    Stalin dies and is succeeded by Georgi Malenkov as prime minister. The USSR also detonates its first hydrogen bomb in 1953.

  • Soviet Union Dissolved

    Soviet Union Dissolved
    The Soviet Union was Formally dissolved on December 26, 1991 by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.