Soviet Union Rise and Fall

By nhockett

  • Bolsheviks overthrow government

    Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government led by Alexander Kerensky, with workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow.

  • Civil War

    Civil war between Bolsheviks, or Reds, and anti-Bolsheviks, or Whites, ravages Russia. In northern Russia, British, French and US troops capture Murmansk and Archangel until 1919, while in the Russian Far East they occupy Vladivostok, which was held by the Japanese until 1922.

  • War with Poland

    War with Poland

  • Union Treaty

    Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union.

  • SU Adopts Dictatorship

    Soviet Union adopts constitution based on the dictatorship of the proletariat and stipulating the public ownership of land and the means of production; Lenin dies and is replaced by Joseph Stalin.

  • League of Nations

    Soviet Union admitted to League of Nations.

  • World War ll

  • Death on Soviet Union

  • Dissolution of Soviet government

    September - Congress of People's Deputies votes for the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

  • Settling of independent states

    Leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign agreement setting up Commonwealth of Independent States.

  • Soviet Union is taken over

    Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia.