Russia - USSR By AKWeighall 1904 Russo-Japanese War 1905 Russian Revolution of 1905 (Fiddler on the Roof) Jul 26, 1914 Russia enters WW1 1917 February Revolution-Russian Revolution of 1917 1917 Bolshevik Revolution-October Revolution 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Lenin takes Russia out of WW1 1918 Romanoffs executed by Bolsheviks 1918 WW1 ends 1923 End of Civil war, establishment of Soviet Union 1924 Lenin dies - Stalin comes to power 1928 Stalin's first 5-year plan 1929 Stalin calls for liquidation of the kulaks Period: 1936 to 1938 The Great Purge 1939 Stalin and Hitler make non-aggression pact 1941 Hitler Invades the Soviet Union 1945 Yalta conference May 2, 1945 Stalin captures Berlin 1946 Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 1948 Berlin Blockade begins 1949 China falls to Mao and communists Aug 29, 1949 Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb 1950 North Korea invades South Korea Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin dies