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The Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and takeover the winter palace in Leningrad/Petrograd
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The civil war between the Bolsheviks and the anti-Bolsheviks that destroys Russia. This happens while
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In 1924 Vladimir Lenin dies and is replaced by a new dictator Joseph Stalin who pushes a constitution forward based on dictatorship of proletariat and which stipulates public ownership of land and the means of production
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Adoption of first Five-Year Plan, with the state setting goals and priorities for the whole economy
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Soviet Union and Germany conclude a non-aggression pact. Germany invades Poland, triggering World War II.
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Germany invades Russia and by the end of the year occupies Belarus and most of Ukraine, they surround Leningrad. Although a Soviet counter attack saves Moscow, by June 1942 the Germans were at the gates of Stalingrad.
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Germans fail to take Stalingrad. Soviet troops launch a counter attack which eventually culminates in the capture of Berlin a few years later
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The Soviet Union fails to prevent supplies from reaching the sectors of Berlin occupied by Russian forces.
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Soviet Union explodes its first atomic device. They also recognise the power of the Communist government in China.
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The Soviet Union and China sign a 30-year long alliance treaty
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Joseph Stalin dies and his government is taken over by Georgi Malenkov.
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Soviet Russia launches it's first ever hydrogen bomb
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Nikolay Bulganin takes Georgi Malenkov's place as Prime Minister
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Soviet Russian Forces stop and uprising in Hungary against the Soviet government and Communist views
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The Soviet Union had to shoot down a US spy drone when it flew over their Soviet territory
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Soviet Russia signs a treaty with the US and BRitain to ban atmospheric nuclear tests. The US-Russia-Britain "hot line" is set up.
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Khrushchev is replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev. Aleksey Kosygin becomes prime minister.
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Soviet Russia and Communist China fight on the borders of their countries
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Leonid Brezhnev is elected president under the new constitution of the Communist party
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Leonid Brezhnev dies and is replaced by KGB chief Yuri Andropov
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Yuri Andropov dies and is replaced Konstantin Chernenko
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Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the communist party
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The Chernobyl power plant explodes and leaves radioactive material across many countries
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The Congress Of Peoples Duties votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign agreement setting up Commonwealth of Independent States.
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as the Soviet President
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The Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia
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