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1917	Revolutions
February	1917 Revolutions (February 23/March 8) Duma convened Bread riots and strikes in Petrograd
March 15	Abdication of Nicholi II in favor of GP Mikhail GP Mikhail transfers power to Provisional Government under Lvov Dual Power (dvoevlastie) begins Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies Order No. 1 Kamenev and Stalin return from Siberia
April	Finland Station: Lenin returns to Russia Lenin's April Theses
May	Miliukov's note to Allies Coalition Provisional Government
June	Election of Constituent Assembly set for September 30
July	Russian offensive against Germans Uprising against Provisional Government Prince Lvov resigns; Kerensky becomes premier 6th Party Congress
August	Kerensky becomes dictator Constituent Assembly election postponed to November 25
September	Kornilov revolt
November	October Revolution (October 25/November 7)  Patriarchate re-established Constituent Assembly elections begin
December	Armistice negotiations at Brest-Litovsk December 20 Establishment of Cheka Left SRs enter coalition with Bolsheviks
1918-1924	Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1918
	About V.I. Lenin [1] [2] [3]
January	Constituent Assembly is dissolved
February	Separation of church and state Russia moves to the Gregorian Calendar (not the Church)
March 3	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (KOI8) 7th Party Congress British land at Murmansk
April	Japanese land at Vladivostok
June	Committees of the Village Poor established Nationalization of industry
July    July 10	Intervention begins Lenin (RFSFR) Constitution ratified
July 17	Murder of Tsar Nicholai II and his family in Ekaterinburg
August	American troops land in Vladivostok
September	American troops land at Archangelsk
November	End of World War I Soviets repudiate Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (copy) French troops land at Odessa
December	British troops land at Batum
1919	Founding of the Comintern
March	Kolchak launches drive against Bolsheviks 8th Party Congress
April	French withdraw from Odessa
June    June 28	Height of Denikin advance Treaty of Versailles
October	Allies withdraw from Murmansk and Archangel
1920
January	Kolchak shot by Bolsheviks Allied blockade lifted
March	9th Party Congress
April	Wrangel replaces Denikin
November	Wrangel evacuates Crimea Civil War ends in Russia
1921	New Economic Policy (NEP) Begins Kronstadt Uprising   10th Party Congress: orders for Purge Treaty of Riga with Poland; establishment of Curzon Line
1922	Cheka replaced by OGPU
April	Stalin becomes secretary general Treaty of Rapallo with Germany 11th Party Congress Lenin's first stroke The USSR declared
December 23	Lenin begins his Testament
1923	12th Party Congress
January 4	Lenin finishes his Testament Lenin's second stroke
1924	Lenin's death (January 21) 13th Party Congress USSR constitution ratified Petrograd renamed 'Leningrad' USSR recognized by Great Britain, France, Italy
1925	14th Party Congress Trotsky removed as war commissar
1926	Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev ousted from Politburo
1927	15th Party Congress: Trotsky, Zinoviev and followers expelled from Party; Stalin takes control Communist revolt in China crushed
1927-1953	Josif Vissarionoich Stalin
	About J.V. Stalin
1928	First Five-Year Plan adopted
1929	Trotsky deported Nikolai Bukharin ousted from Politburo Collectivization and industrialization begins
1930	16th Party Congress Stalin's "Dizzy with Success" speech
1932-1933	Ukrainian Famine
1932	Dissolution of Russian Association of Proletarian Writers
January 21	Non-Agression Pact with Finland Prokofiev returns from abroad First mention of "socialist realism" Soviet/French non-aggression pact
1933	USA recognizes USSR Ivan Bunin wins Russia's first Nobel Prize in literature
1933-1937	Second Five-Year Plan
1934	17th Party Congress Birobidzhan becomes autonomous Jewish state First Congress of Russian Writers Soviet Union joins League of Nations Kirov assassinated; beginning of Stalinist purges
1935	Collective farm statute Campaign of Stakhanovism begins
1936	Gorky dies
December	Stalin constitution promulgated Show trials of Zinoviev, Kamenev, et al. prosecuted by Vishinsky
1937	Trial of Radek, et al. Much of Soviet army command executed
1937-41	Stalinshchina (Stalin Terror)
1938	Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky Trial of Bukharin, et al.
1938-1941	Third Five-Year Plan
1939	18th Party Congress Minimum labor days set for collective farms Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact World War II: Germans invade Poland Soviets take over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania Stalin named 'Man of the Year' by TIME Soviet attacks on Poland and Finland
1940	Sholokhov completes Silent Don End of war with Finland Baltic states are annexed Bessarabia is annexed Trotsky is murdered in Mexico
1941	German Invasion of USSR (June 22) Stalin names himself head of government
December	Leningrad blockade begins Battle for Moscow
1942	Churchill visits Moscow Lend-Lease in full operation Stalin named 'Man of the Year' by TIME again
1943	German surrender at Stalingrad Dissolution of the Comintern Sergius becomes Patriarch October The Moscow Conference November Teheran Conference
July-August	Kursk battle Forcing of the Dnepr River
1944	Soviet army frees the right bank of the Ukraine and the whole of Belorussia Chasing of the German army across the border of the USSR Freeing of Rumania and Poland
1945 February	Yalta Conference Budapest, Vienna and Prague taken by Russian troops Berlin surrenders. Elba meeting. Potsdam Conference
July 24	Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part I, wins Stalin Prize First elections to the Supreme Soviet since 1937 Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" Speech at Westminster College [Listen to it] Zhdanov attacks Zoshchenko and Soviet composers Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part II, withdrawn from theaters First session of the UN opens Communist government in Bulgaria
1946-1950	Fourth Five-Year Plan
1947	Rationing abolished Cominform established
1948	Czechoslovakia joins Soviet bloc
1948	Berlin blockade Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
1949	USSR tests atomic bomb
1950	USSR and China sign alliance treaty
1951-1955	Fifth Five-Year Plan
1952	19th Party Congress
1953	Death of Stalin Malenkov, premier; Khrushchev, first secretary Beria executed
1954    April 26	Ehrenburg's The Thaw initiates 'The Thaw' Crimea transferred to Ukraine
1954-1956	Khrushchev's 'Virgin Land' program
1955	Malenkov replaced by Bulganin Summit Conference in Geneva Warsaw Pact established
1956	20th Party Congress Khrushchev's "Secret Speech"; Lenin's Testament read Party condemns "cult of the individual"    November Hungarian revolution quashed Molotov resigns
1957	Malenkov, Kaganovich and Molotov ousted Decentralization of economic organization First Sputnik launched USSR successfully tests ICBM
1958	Bulganin resigns US-USSR cultural exchange agreement US edition of Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak awarded Nobel Prize for literature