Mwh By ShreyBahadur Period: 1901 to 1991 Russian industrialization Period: Feb 8, 1904 to Sep 5, 1905 Russo-Japanese war Oct 30, 1905 The Duma is created Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WWI Mar 2, 1917 Duma becomes the provisional government Mar 15, 1917 Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne Period: Nov 7, 1917 to Oct 25, 1922 Russian civil war Period: Oct 29, 1918 to Aug 11, 1919 November revolution Apr 3, 1922 Stalin takes over as general secretary of the communist party Jan 21, 1924 Lenin dies Period: 1928 to 1932 1st 5 year plan Period: 1933 to 1937 2nd 5 year plan Period: 1936 to 1938 Stalins Great purge Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII Period: 1947 to 1991 Cold War 1953 Destalinization Mar 5, 1953 Stalin dies Jul 24, 1959 Kitchen debate Dec 5, 1965 Glasnost 1985 Gorbachev takes over as general secretary of the communist party Period: 1985 to 1991 Perestroika Dec 26, 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union