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1924 BCE
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established
It was a new constitution, each republic had a government but they all had to be communist, and the system was run centrally by the Politburo. -
1924 BCE
Lenin died
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1921 BCE
Civil war finished
The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War
The Krondstadt naval base mutinied. They wanted free speech and press, free elections for soviets, free trade unions, the sale of peasants' grain, but the Red Army ruled by Trotsky attacked them and put down the mutiny. -
1918 BCE
Civil War
Russia was divided into two factions:
White Russians: The counterrevolutionary elements.
Red Army:Trosky created one of the best armies in history through discipline, organization and ideology because Lenin asked he.
Futhermore, war communism was introduced. This meant the nationalization of industry, the collectivization of lands’ and requisition of all rural production. The whole Royal Family was executed. -
1917 BCE
A Republic was declared
The Tsar lost support and control: his soldiers refused to fire on the mobs or deserted to join the rioting workers. In March the Tsar gave up the throne and a provisional government was formed under the leadership of Kerensky. -
1917 BCE
October Revoulution
The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, attacked the winter Palace in St. Petersburg and seized power. Bolsheviks moved the capital to Moscow and made peace with Central Empires: Treaty of Brest–Litovsk. -
1916 BCE
Tsar took control of the army
This was his biggest mistake. From this moment on, everybody blamed him for the continuous and bloody defeats, the terrible conditions suffered by the soldiers at the front, and the shortages at home. -
1914 BCE
Russia joined in the First World War
It happens because neither the economy nor the army were ready to face the German army -
1905 BCE
Russia an Japan war
Russia´s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion -
1905 BCE
Duma was created
After the war the Tsar created a parliament called the Duma with the promise of a more democratic government, but this did not happen -
Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party
It happened because after Lenin's death there was a struggle for power between Stalin and Trotsky. Trotsky wanted revolution to spread to other countries. Stalin was content for Communism to stay within just one country for the moment.
