By 1937 collectivization was almost completed, kulaks had been eliminated and the peasants were afraid of Communist powers.
1929 BCE
Stalin began collectivising all farms (kolkhos).
1927 BCE
. Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party (1927).
1924 BCE
a new constitution established the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1924 BCE
Lenin died in 1924.
1921 BCE
The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War in 1921
1921 BCE
Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to restore order and increase prosperity after the chaos of Revolution, Civil War, and War Communism.
1918 BCE
Russia was divided into two factions:
White Russians:. The counterrevolutionary elements,
The Red Army. At the beginning of the civil war Lenin asked Leon Trotsky, a young
Bolshevik leader, to create a new army from the Red Guards, an army of workers.
1917 BCE
Russia suffered as a result of the impacts of the First World War.
1914 BCE
In 1914 the Russian Empire joined World War
1905 BCE
Russia´s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion.
