Commmm

the rise and fall of communism in the USSR

By bporter0702
  • bolsheviks revolution

    bolsheviks revolution

    • Bolsheviks overthrow government led by Alexander Kerensky, and take over government buildings and the Winter Palace.
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    Civil war between Bolsheviks, and anti-Bolsheviks,
  • five year plan

    five year plan

    1928 - Adoption of first Five-Year Plan, with state-set goals.
    millions of peasants get their property taken
  • death pf stalin

    death pf stalin

    • Stalin dies and is succeeded by Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
  • i spy

    i spy

    Soviet Union shoots down US spy plane U-2 over Soviet territory.
  • cuban missile crisis

    cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis starts because of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
  • rebellions

    rebellions

    Soviet troops leave Afghanistan; nationalist riots put; Lithuanian Communist Party declares its independence from the Soviet Communist Party
  • yeltsin

    yeltsin

    Communist Party votes to end one-party rule; Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and leaves the Soviet Communist Party.
  • banned

    banned

    Yeltsin bans the Soviet Communist Party in Russia
  • agreements

    agreements

    Leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign agreement of Commonwealth of Independent States
  • over

    over

    Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia.