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marx was born in trier, germany
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Heinrich Marx died
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Bruno Bauer was dismissed from teaching
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Marx was appointed as editor of the Rhenish Gazette
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marx wrote an article about poverty of the mosel wine-farmers, and put it in the newspaper. newspaper banned by
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Marx wrote Economic and Philosophic manuscripts.
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Marx's journal about the working class becoming the emancipators of society was published, then banned in germany
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Marx recieved an order deporting him from france
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Marx and Friedrich Engles visited england
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Marx created a Communist Correspondence Committee
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marx attended a meeting of the Communist League Central Committee in london
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Communist Manifesto Published
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Marx recieved news that he was going to be expelled from the country
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last edition of rhenish gazette was published. it was printed in red
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Marx sailed fro england
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Marx family ejected from their home for failing to pay the rent
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Charles Dana offered marx the opportunity to write for his newspaper, the New York
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Marx published "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"
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New York Daily Tribune ended; marx's money problems returned
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Ferdinand Lassalle (sent money to marx) was killed in a duel
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first volume of "Das Kapital" was published
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Marx's 16 year old daughter, eleanor, began helping him with the second part of "das kapital"
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Formation of the Paris Commune and abdication of Louis Napoleon
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Revolt collapsed and about 30,000 communards were slaughtered by government troops
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marx's wife, jenny, died
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Karl Marx's eldest daughter died from cancer of the bladder
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Karl Marx died
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Nicholas II succeeded to the throne
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Nicholas II moved family residence from Anichkov Palace to Alexander Palace
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trotsky was Involved in organizing the undeground South Russian Workers' Union
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Stalin was expelled from the Tiflis Theological Seminary
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a strong revival movement was calling for the restoration of church autonomy and organizational reform
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Stalin joined the Social Democratic Labour Party
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Nicholas II Appointed Vyacheslav Plehve as Ministor of the interior
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Speech by plehve arguing that western russian revolutionaries are 90% jewish and that 40% of russia is jewish
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Father Georgi Gapon created the Assembly of russian workers
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Dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov at the Social Democratic Party held in london. Lenin lost the debate. He created the Bolshevik faction, and those on Martov's side were part of the menshevik faction
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Evno Azef ordered Vyacheslav Plehve's assassination.
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Bad year for workers
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Stalin escaped from Siberia and within a few months he was back organizing demonstrations and strikes in Tiflis
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Japanese launched surprise attack on russian fleet at port arthur
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Plehve was killed by a bomb thrown by egor sazonov
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During the 1905 revolution, trotsky returned to russia
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Sailors on the potemkin battleship protested the serving of rotten meat
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Railwaymen went on strike
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Trotsky and executive committee members were arrested
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St. Petersburg Soviet(something, missing in paper) was crushed and trotsky was arrested and imprisoned
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Nicholas II forced sergi witte to resign and replaced him with peter stolypin
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First meeting of the duma
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tolypin introduced legislation allowing peasants to more easily aquire land
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Trotsky was sentenced to internal exile, and lost all civil rights
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Kaiser Wilhelm II agreed that russia should join britain and france to create the
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stolypin established a new electoral law that bypassed the 1906 constitution, assuring a
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Tsar's wife alexandra took ill, and was healed by Gregory rasputin. He became a
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over 3000 suspects (political revolutionaries) were convicted and executed by the special courts esablished by stolypin
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Stolypin was assassinated by Dmitri Bogrov, who was a member of the Socialist
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hundreds of miners who were on strike were massacred at the Lena goldfields.
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almost half of russian industrial workforce was on strike
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Segi sazonov advised the tsar to mobilize the russian army, knowing it would lead
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Trotsky moved to paris, and editor of the social democratic party newspaper
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Nicholas II assumed supreme command of the russian army fighting on the eastern
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trotsky was arrested by french authorities and deported to spain
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regory rasputin was invited to Yusupov's home and given poison wine and
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Trotsky arrived in new york and worked with Nikolai Bukharin and Alexandra Kollontai to publish the Revolutionary newspaper 'Novy Mir'
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the moderate Provisional Government had provided the church a few months of restoration to its pre-Petrine stature by reestablishing the patriarchate and independent governance of the church
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Trotsky left for russia after the overthrow of Nicholas II.
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Tsar decreed the disolution of the duma
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Russian army high command recommended the nicholas II abdicated
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Trotsky arrived in russia
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General Lavr Kornilov demanded the resignation of the cabinet and the surrender of all civil and military authority to the russian army
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Totsky elected chairman of the petrograd Soviet (Petro Soviet what?)
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Bolshevik Revolution
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Vladimir appointed Trotsky as the people's commissar for foreign affairs
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Stalin made a speech concerning the policies of the bolsheviks
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Soviet government oredered the formation of the red army of workers and peasants. Trotsky was appointed it's leader
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the government had nationalized all church property, including buildings
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Lenin ordered trotsky to accept the terms of the Central Powers
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Government introduced conscription in 1918
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Nicholas and his family were executed
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Moisei Uritsky, chief of the Petrograd Secret Police was assassinated
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An allied force under British command was sent to Russia They took the city of Archangel and pushed the Red Army (Bolshevik troops) south. At the request of the British, the United States sent a regiment to join the campaign.
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American troops began to withdraw, replaced by fresh British troops and Russian White Army allies. The leader of the American troops felt that the operation was mismanaged, and his soldiers subjected to unnecessary hardships. This small force suffered over 400 casualties.
To Americans, this campaign is a little known minor incident of World War I. But to the Russians, who had great pride in their ultimate victory, this was the "American invasion." -
Buddhist and Shamanist places of worship in Buryatia, in the Baikal region, were destroyed, and their lamas and priests were arrested (a practice that continued until the 1970s)
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Alexandra Kollontai published her pamphlet " the workers' opposition"
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crew of battleship Petropavlovsk passed resolution calling for a return of full political freedoms
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Trotsky announced red army to attack Kronstadt sailors
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government forces took control of kronstadt
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stalin disagreed with Lenin over the issue of foreign trade
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Lenin's widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, demanded that the Central Committee announce its contents to the rest of the party
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stalin was able to remove trotsky from power
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The League of the Militant Godless directed a nationwide campaign against the Orthodox Church and all other organized religions
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production had reached the levels achieved before the start of the First World War
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Stalin's advisers told him that with the modernization of farming the Soviet Union would require an extra 250,000 tractors
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Stalin's advisers told him that with the modernization of farming the Soviet Union would require an extra 250,000 tractors
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First five year plan created in order to expedite the industrialization of Russia and increase production of coal, steel and iron
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Stalin began attacking kulaks for not supplying enough food for industrial workers
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Trotsky Published "My Life"
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Second five year plan created in order to triple coal, iron and steel output. The success of the second five year plan put an end to food rationing and the USSR became a major world economic power
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Nickolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Krestinsky and Christian Rakovsky were arrested and accused of being involved with Leon Trotsky in a plot against Stalin
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Trotsky's son Sergi was arrested in the soviet union
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Trotsky appeared before a commission of inquiry in New York headed by john Dewey
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The third five year plan focused on the USSR and it's role in World War Two; due to the problems in mobilizing troops in World War One a special effort was made to ensure that Russia's transportation systems was running and efficient
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the government significantly relaxed some restrictions on religious practice, a change that the Orthodox Church met with an attitude of cooperation
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signing of the German-Soviet nonaggression pact
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an estimated 30,000 religious communities of all denominations survived in all the Soviet Union, but only about 500 Russian Orthodox parishes were open at that time, compared with the estimated 54,000 that had existed before World War I
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Stalin has Trotsky assassination by ramon mercador in mexico city
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hitler signed Directive 21 (code-named Operation "Barbarossa"), the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union
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officials of the Army High Command (Oberkommando des Heeres-OKH) and the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt-RSHA) negotiated arrangements for the deployment of special units (Einsatzgruppen) of the Security Police and the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst-SD) behind the front lines to physically annihilate Jews, Communists and other persons deemed to be dangerous to establishment of long-term German rule on Soviet territory.
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German sergeant deserted to the Soviet forces. He informed them that the German Army would attack at dawn the following morning
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union
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German forces invaded the Soviet Union
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German troops were only fifteen miles outside Moscow
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Hitler's decision to deport German Jews to the occupied Soviet Union start date
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the Soviet Union launched a major counterattack against the center of the front, driving the Germans back from Moscow in chaos
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Adolf Hitler made Friedrich Paulus a Field MarshaL
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Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met together in Teheran, Iran, to discuss military strategy and post-war Europe.
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D-day landings
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Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met again
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Atmoic Bomb Droppped on Hiroshima
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Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
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Stalin ordered an economic blockade of Berlin
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Stalin made full use of his abilities by arranging the setting up of communist regimes in Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia
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stalin fell into a coma ... Stalin then stopped breathing and although attempts were made to revive him, his doctors eventually accepted he was dead.
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the official party newspaper published a poem by the poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko called the Heirs of Stalin
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number of operating Russian Orthodox churches had been reduced to about 7,000
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about 3,000 Orthodox churches and two monasteries were active
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Gorbachev met with Orthodox leaders and explicitly discussed the role of religion in the lives of their followers
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new laws specified the church's right to hold private property and to distribute publications
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Soviet legislature passed a new law on religious freedom, proposed by Gorbachev; at the same time, some of the constituent republics began enacting their own laws on the same subject
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Boris Yeltsin's appearance at a Moscow Easter service
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more than 8,000 Russian Orthodox churches were opened, doubling the number of active parishes and adding thirty-two eparchies (dioceses). In the first half of the 1990s. the church's social services also expanded considerably with the creation of departments of charity and social services and of catechism and religious education within the patriarchy the church inspired greater trust among the Russian population than most other social and political institutions.