Russia Timeline By John Jay Nov 4, 1904 Russo-Japanese war Jan 1, 1905 Bloody Sunday Jan 1, 1914 Russia Enters WWI Jan 1, 1917 Bolsheviks take control Jan 1, 1917 Nicholas II abdicates Jan 1, 1917 Provisional government Jan 1, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Jan 1, 1918 Successful war with Finland Jan 1, 1918 Russian Civil War Jul 1, 1918 Romanov Family Murdered Jan 1, 1921 New Economic Policy Jan 1, 1922 Soviet Union Established Jan 1, 1924 Death of Lenin Jan 1, 1928 Stalin's Five Year Plans Begin Nov 4, 1932 Collectivization of Ukraine Nov 4, 1936 Great purge Jan 1, 1939 Stalin and Hitler sign non-aggression pact Nov 4, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Jan 1, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Jan 1, 1945 Soldiers of US and USSR meet at River Elbe Nov 4, 1948 Berlin Blockade Jan 1, 1949 First Soviet atomic bomb tested Jan 1, 1953 Death of Stalin Jan 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact creates Jan 1, 1956 Hungarian Revolt crushed Jan 1, 1957 Launch of Sputnik I Jan 1, 1957 Khrushchev takes control of USSR Jan 1, 1961 Berlin Wall constructed Oct 1, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Jan 1, 1972 SALT Treaty Signed Nov 4, 1978 Ussr invades Afghanistan Jan 1, 1990 Gorbachev becomes leader Jan 1, 1991 Commonwealth of Independent States Created Jan 1, 1996 Boris Yeltsin wins second term in election
