2 decades of USSR

By Nastyaaaaa1

  • Return

    Return
    Lenin and other revolutionaries return to Russia from Germany

  • "War communism" 1918-21

    "War communism" 1918-21
    Policy of "war communism" enunciated, with the state taking control of the whole economy; millions of peasants in the Don region starve to death as the army confiscates grain for its own needs and the needs of urban dwellers.

  • "War communism" 1918-21

    "War communism" 1918-21
    Policy of "war communism" enunciated, with the state taking control of the whole economy; millions of peasants in the Don region starve to death as the army confiscates grain for its own needs and the needs of urban dwellers.

  • Civil war 1918-20

    Civil war 1918-20
    Civil war between Bolsheviks, or Reds, and anti-Bolsheviks, or Whites, ravages Russia. In northern Russia, British, French and US troops capture Murmansk and Archangel until 1919, while in the Russian Far East they occupy Vladivostok, which was held by the Japanese until 1922

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk according to which Russia ceded large tracts of land to Germany; Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan proclaim their independence from Russia

  • Treaty of Riga

    Treaty of Riga
    Peace treaty between Poland and Russia signed in Riga, Latvia, that ended the Russo-Polish War of 1919–20 and set their mutual border. The treaty, which gave Poland parts of Belorussia (now Belarus) and Ukraine, lasted until World War II, after which a new treaty established a new border.

  • Declaration of the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    Declaration of the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union. Also Germany recognises the Soviet Union.

  • Dictatorship and Joseph Stalin

    Dictatorship and Joseph Stalin
    Soviet Union adopts constitution based on the dictatorship of the proletariat and stipulating the public ownership of land and the means of production; Lenin dies and is replaced by Joseph Stalin

  • Russian-Finnish war , 1939-40

    Russian-Finnish war , 1939-40
    Russian-Finnish war, which ends with Finland ceding territory to the USSR - the present Russian constituent republic of Karelia

  • Non-aggression pact

    Non-aggression pact
    Soviet Union and Japan sign a non-aggression pact

  • Soviet Union and China alliance treaty

    Soviet Union and China alliance treaty
    Soviet Union and China sign 30-year alliance treaty