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Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and takeover the winter palace in Leningrad/Petrograd -
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Civil war in Russia
The civil war between the Bolsheviks and the anti-Bolsheviks that destroys Russia. This happens while
eastern Russia is invaded by the US, Britain and Japan -
New dictatorship
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 -
Five year plan
Adoption of first Five-Year Plan, with the state setting goals and priorities for the whole economy -
German-Russian Pact
Soviet Union and Germany conclude a non-aggression pact. Germany invades Poland, triggering World War II. -
Germany invades Russia
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. -
Russia launches a counter attack
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 Berlin blockade
The Soviet Union fails to prevent supplies from reaching the sectors of Berlin occupied by Russian forces. -
First Russian atomic device
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic device. They also recognise the power of the Communist government in China. -
Chinese alliance
The Soviet Union and China sign a 30-year long alliance treaty -
Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin dies and his government is taken over by Georgi Malenkov. -
Hydrogen bombs
Soviet Russia launches it's first ever hydrogen bomb -
New Prime Minister
Nikolay Bulganin takes Georgi Malenkov's place as Prime Minister -
Uprising in Hungary
Soviet Russian Forces stop and uprising in Hungary against the Soviet government and Communist views -
US drone
The Soviet Union had to shoot down a US spy drone when it flew over their Soviet territory -
Signing of a treaty
Soviet Russia signs a treaty with the US and BRitain to ban atmospheric nuclear tests. The US-Russia-Britain "hot line" is set up. -
New Prime Minister PT.2
Khrushchev is replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev. Aleksey Kosygin becomes prime minister. -
China vs Russia Attack
Soviet Russia and Communist China fight on the borders of their countries -
New president of the communist party
Leonid Brezhnev is elected president under the new constitution of the Communist party -
Brezhnev's death
Leonid Brezhnev dies and is replaced by KGB chief Yuri Andropov -
Now Andropov
Yuri Andropov dies and is replaced Konstantin Chernenko -
Chernenko also dies
Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the communist party -
The famous Chernobyl
The Chernobyl power plant explodes and leaves radioactive material across many countries -
The death of the Soviet Union
The Congress Of Peoples Duties votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union -
Commonwealth of Independent Sates
Leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign agreement setting up Commonwealth of Independent States. -
Gorbachev resigns
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as the Soviet President -
It's officially dead
The Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia -