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Was a Soviet dictator, president of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1953.
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In 1905 Russia ́s
defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion -
The Tsar created a parl
iament called the Duma with the
promise of a more democratic government, but this did not happen. -
In 1914 the Russian Empire joined World War I.
in 1916 the Tsar himself took
control of the army.
In February 1917 riots broke out in Petrograd.
In March the Tsar gave
up the throne (abdicated) and a provisional governm
ent was formed under the leadership of
Kerensky.
On November 7, 1917, , the Bolshevik revolutionaries attacked the Petrograd Winter Palace.
Then the newly established Russian Soviet Republic left an unpopular war signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918. -
In 1918 Russia was divided into two factions:
White Russians:. The counterrevolutionary elements,
The Red Army. At the beginning of the civil war Len
in asked Leon Trotsky, a young
Bolshevik leader, to create a new army from the Red
Guards, an army of workers.
The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War in 1921.
By 1928 the economy recovered to the level of 1914.
In 1924 a new constitution established the USSR (Un
ion of Soviet Socialist Republics) -
Lenin died in 1924.
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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 co
mmunist, and the system was run
centrally by the Politburo (senior council). -
Trotsky was finally murdered in Mexico by
Ramón Mercader, a fanatic spanish stalinst.
