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Lenin and other revolutionaries return Russia from Germany
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Russia is at War with Poland
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Poland and the Soviet Union sign a peace treaty
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Union treaty formally jions Russia, Ukrain, Belarus, and Transcaucass into the Soviet Union.
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Germany recognizes the Soviet Union
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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
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The United States recognizes the Soviet Union
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The Sovet Union explodes first atomic device
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Stalin dies and is suceeded by Georgi Malenkov as Prime Minister
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Brezhnev elected as president under new constitution
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Brezhnev dies and is replaced by KGB chief Yuri Andropov.
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Andropov dies and is replaced by Konstantin Chernenko
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Andrey Gromyko becomes president
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Mikhali Gorbachev proposes econimic and political reform
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Communist Party votes to end one-party rule;Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the latter’s parliament and leaves the Soviet Communist Party.
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The Russian gevernment take over offices of U.S.S.R in Russia