Soviet Union time line

  • Russo-japanese war

  • End of Russo-Japanese War

  • The duma is created

  • WW1

  • Duma became the provisional government

  • November revolution

  • Czar Nicholas abdication

  • End of November revolution

  • Russian civil war

  • End of WW1

  • Stalin takes over as general secretary of the communist party

  • End of Russian civil war

  • 1st 5 year plan

  • 2nd 5 year plan

  • Stalin’s “Great Purge”

  • WW2

  • Cold War

  • End of WW2

  • Stalin’s death

  • Destalinization

  • Nixon/Khruschev “Kitchen debate”

  • Gorbachev takes over as General Secretary of the Communist Party

  • Perestroika

  • Glasnost

  • End of Cold War

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union