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World War I
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Grigori Rasputin is assassinated in Russia
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Start of russian Civil war march 8, 1917, Vladimer Lenin starts a revolution
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Polish Soviet war starts, First red scare in America
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USSR forms in russia
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joseph stalin rises to power
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First Russian gulag opens
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The great purge ends after nearly 700,000 executions
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World War II
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Battle of Stalingrad fails
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Cold War
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soviet union creates atomic bombs
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Death a Joseph Stalin
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Soviets first to generate nuclear power
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Warsaw pact signed
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Vietnam war
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Sputnik launch
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End of most Russian gulags
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U-2 incedent causes tensions
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Rise of the Berlin wall
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Cuban missle crisis starts and ends
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Leonid Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev and assumes power in the Soviet Union
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Leonid Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev and assumes power in the Soviet Union
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Ratification of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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Soviet Afghanistan war
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Independence of the former 15 soviet states
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Dissolution of the soviet union