Rusian 1905-1939

By 1937 collectivization was almost completed, kulaks had been eliminated and the peasants were afraid of Communist powers.

1937 BCE

Stalin began collectivising all farms (kolkhos).

1929 BCE

. Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party (1927).

1927 BCE

a new constitution established the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1924 BCE

Lenin died in 1924.

1924 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.

1921 BCE

Russia was divided into two factions:

1918 BCE

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.

Russia suffered as a result of the impacts of the First World War.

1917 BCE

In 1914 the Russian Empire joined World War

1914 BCE

Russia´s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion.

1905 BCE