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1939 BCE
1939
Second World War was started -
1937 BCE
1937
The collectivization was almost completed, kulaks had been eliminated and the peasants were afraid of Communist powers. -
1937 BCE
1937
Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a personal dictatorship where the communist ideal was still alive but filtered by his powerful personality. He ruled over the USSR using three tools:
-Cult of personality
-The party
-The terror -
1929 BCE
1929
Stalin began collectivising all farms. Another type of collectivisation were the state farms: owned completely by the state, peasants worked as labourers, so they received wages even if the farm did badly. -
1929 BCE
1929
Some peasants refused this change and did not want to give up lands, especially the kulaks (richer peasants). Stalin called them enemies of the people. Around 10 million were
shot or sent to Labour Camps, many died from starva
tion or cold. -
1928 BCE
1928
A Five-Year Plan set targets for all basic industri
al factories and workers. -
1927 BCE
1927
Stalin was content for Communism to stay
within just one country for the moment. Stalin cont
rolled the party. Trotsky was isolated
and thrown out of the Communist Party. -
1924 BCE
1924
A new constitution established the USSR -
1921 BCE
1921
The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War. -
1921 BCE
1921
Lenin introduced a New Economic Policy to r
estore order and increase prosperity
after the chaos of Revolution, Civil War, and War
Communism. -
1918 BCE
1918
Russia was divided into two factions:
-white russians
-the red army -
1917 BCE
1917
Riots broke out in Petrograd. The
Tsar lost support and control. -
1917 BCE
1917 march
the Tsar gave
up the throne (abdicated) -
1917 BCE
1917
The Bolsheviks, led by Len
in, attacked the winter Palace in St.
Petersburg and seized power. -
1916 BCE
1916
the Tsar himself took
control of the army -
1914 BCE
1914
The Russian Empire joined World War I. -
1905 BCE
1905
Russia ́s
defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion.
