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First Russian Revolution
Tsar Nicholas II Abdicates -
Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin establishes Cheka (Soviet secret police in December) -
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Russian Civil War
Started after Lenin took Russia out of World War One.
Bolsheviks had to fight until 1921 to consolidate control over soviet union. -
Lenin Abolishes Constituent Assembly
[The Draft Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly was written by Lenin, January 6, 1918 and published in Pravda, No. 5 and Izvestia, No. 5, January 7, 1918.] -
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War Communism
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NEP
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Stalin Becomes General Secretary
Of Communist party, position gives him Unrivalled power. -
Death of Lenin
Now Power struggle to replace him.
(Trotsky favourite, so Zinoviev and Kamenev unite with Stalin to try and stop him) -
Stalin and Bukarin defeat United Opposition
(Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev) Bukarin supports NEP, telling peasants to enrich themselves. -
NEP Starts to Fail
Stalin turns on Bukarin. -
Bukarin Defeated & First 5 year plan
First 5 year plan for agriculture begins in the soviet union, Ending NEP. -
Seizure of grain becomes official policy
In the countryside.
Stalin decrees elimination of the kulaks as a class. -
Ryutin Attacks Policies
Ryutin attacks Stalin's poloicies, and Stalin is unable to execute him. -
Sergei Kirov Assasinated
(Stalin's no.2)
Stalin introduces emergency decree against terrorism, giving NKVD greater powers. -
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The Great Purge
-The beggining of show trials.
-50 leading Bolsheviks are put on public trial and found guilty of crimes against the state.
-Millions of citizens arrested, imprisoned and executed.
-1936: Constitution is introduced. -
Trotsky's Death
Assasinated by Stalinist agent in mexico.
Stalin now only survivor from lenin's original government of 1917. -
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Cold War
Over next four years, Soviet Union establishes communist and totalitarian puppet states in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. -
Stalin's Death
The worst excesses of Soviet Totolitarianism end but dictatorship continues. -
Collapse of Communism in Soviet Union