Soviet Union

By bmdevine1022
  • Bolsheviks

    Bolsheviks

    Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government.
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    Policy of "War Communism" began with the state taing control of the whole economy.
  • Treaty

    Treaty

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a peace treaty between new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and Central Powers.
  • Period: to

    New Economic Policy

    New Economic Policy led to a partial return of a market economy with a time of stability.
  • Stalin

    Stalin

    Stalin becomes dictator.
  • Five Year Plan

    Five Year Plan

    First Five Year Plan was adopted setting goals for the whole economy, marking the end of the New Economic Policy.
  • Non Aggression Pact

    Non Aggression Pact

    Soviet Union and Nazi Germany conclude a non-aggression pact, Germany invades Poland which starts World War II.
  • Stalin dies

    Stalin dies

    Stalin dies and is suc­ceeded by Georgi Malenkov as prime min­is­ter and by Nikita Khrushchev as first sec­re­tary of the Cen­tral Com­mit­tee of the Com­mu­nist Party.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact is formed.
  • New secretary of the communist party

    New secretary of the communist party

    Khrushchev is replaced as first sec­re­tary of the Com­mu­nist Party by Leonid Brezh­nev and Alek­sey Kosy­gin becomes prime minister.
  • New secretary of communist party

    New secretary of communist party

    Cher­nenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gor­bachev as gen­eral sec­re­tary of the Com­mu­nist Party
  • End of Communism

    End of Communism

    Gorbachev pro­poses eco­nomic and polit­i­cal reform which led to the end of Communism.