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Creation of the Communist Party
Communism was first implemented into the Russian Goverment. -
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20th Century Russia
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. -
Bolshavik Revolution
Bolshevik victory, Creation of Soviet Russia, End of Russian Provisional Government, Russian Republic and dual power,
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Lenin's New Economic Plan
This was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it state capitalism. -
Establishment of the USSR
Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Joseph Stalin took power, leading the USSR through a large-scale industrialization program. Stalin established a planned economy and suppressed political opposition to him and the Communist party. -
Stalin's Five Year Plan
The New Economic Policy was replaced by Stalin's First Five-Year Plan in 1928. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
This was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other in October 1962, during the Cold War. -
Glasnost
Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s, -
End of the communist party
The Soviet Union was ended in 1991 with the end of the cold war. This was due to finacial and political downfalls of the system. -
Democracy of Russia Implemented
A porper governing system was needed in Russia after the Soviet union collapse. Democracy was an option to get the country back on its feet.
