Russia between the wars

Russia withdraws from WWI

Mar 8, 1917

The russian revolution was a group of revolutions in russia in 1917, Which took apart the Tsarist autocracy which led to a rise of the soviet union.

Bolsheviks take control

Nov 17, 1917

Lenin and the bolsheviks take control in petrograd and overthrow the public

Peace Treaty

Mar 3, 1918

The Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia. The terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland, and peace on the Eastern Front allows Germany to shift soldiers to the Western Front, causing serious problems for the French, British, and Americans. http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/timeline.html

Typhoid Epidemic

Mar 19, 1919

A typhoid epidemic raged in Petrograd, Russia, killing 200 daily.
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Between world war 1 and world war 2

Period: Jun 28, 1919 to Sep 1, 1939

Moscow peace treaty

Jul 12, 1920

Lithuania and Russia signed a peace treaty in Moscow.
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Starved Russians

Oct 4, 1921

League of Nations refused to assist starving Russians.
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German- soviet Treaty of Rapallo

Apr 16, 1922

In the German-Soviet treaty of Rapallo both sides take up diplomatic relations and agree that any open questions resulting from the war are settled. With this the Soviet Union renounces any claims due to the Versailles-Treaty. This alienates France, which had planned to shift the huge Russian pre-war debts to France (which the Soviet Union simply did not acknowledge) upon Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rapallo_(1922)

Soviet union struggle

Jan 21, 1924

Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 53 and a major struggle for power in the Soviet Union began. A triumvirate led by Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin. By 1928, Stalin had assumed absolute power, ruling as an often brutal dictator until his death in 1953 of a brain hemorrhage. In 1998 Vladimir Brovkin published "Russia After Lenin."http://www.timelines.ws/countries/RUS_B_1911_1944.HTML

U.S oil

Mar 26, 1926

Mar 26, U.S. oil companies bought 190,000 tons of kerosene from Russia for $3.2 million.
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Prince John Kropotkin sons murder

Jul 5, 1927

Prince John Kropotkin, son of Russian Prince Alexei Kropotkin, was beaten to death on a Paris street. Soviet agents were suspected.
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