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Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
After ther defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japenese, their economy fail greatly. After dealing with continuous hunger, and unfair wages, the people began to revolt. On May 15, 1917, the women and the workers began to protest, the Tsar decided to step down and reliquish his power -
Bolsheviks overthrow the Kerensky governmen
This reovlution occured just a few moths after its earlier counterpart. This Revolution removed the provisional government form the head of power in Russian and set the Bolsheviks in a positionto take power. As the head of the Bolshevik party, Vladmir Lenin, took complete power of Russian and then set out to seek the reforms he promised -
The Bolsheviks Deprivess the Cossacks of Their Special Status
After a conflict broke out between the Cossaks and the Communist ogvernment set up by Lenin, they were deprived of their specai lstatus. In a communist government, their is suppose to be one social class and everyone be equal, but the cossacks were technically lords of the land that they took over for the Tsars -
Lenin creates the secret police Cheka under the command of Feliks Dzerzinisky
Lenin created the Cheka in order to establish one party control and perpetuate the Totalitarian state that he wished to used to carry out his Communist ideologies. The Cheka was an instrument of control, using fear and ambiguity to keep the masses in check and obedient -
Lenin switches Russia to the Gregorian Calender
Although there had been discussion and petitions in Russia to switch to the new calendar, the tsar never approved its adoption. After the Soviets successfully took over Russia in 1917, V.I. Lenin agreed that the Soviet Union should join the rest of the world in using the Gregorian calendar. In addition, to fix the date, the Soviets ordered that February 1, 1918 would actually become February 14, 1918. (This change of date still causes some confusion; for example, the Soviet takeover of Russia, k -
Lenin changes the name of the Bolshevik party to Russian Communist Party
The Communist Party of the Soviet Unionwas the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world. Immediately thereafter, the Bolsheviks founded the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic - the world's first constitutionally socialist state. After a bloody civil war, at the end of 1922 the Bolsheviks emerged victorious and unified territories of the former Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). -
Russia moves the capital from Petrograd to Moskow
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The Soviet government establishes a special commission to identify intellectuals to be arrested or expelled
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In a large public trial leaders of the Social Revolutionaries are forced to "confess"
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The Soviet Union is created
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Lenin dies and is succeeded by the triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev
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The government launches a campaign against entrepreneurs
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The Soviet government destroys the Christ the Savior Cathedral
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Stalin orders that people be forbidden to leave the areas affected by the famine
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Stalin orders the liquidation of several ethnic groups (Germans, Poles, Japanese, Finns, etc)
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Stalin Order the Great Purge
The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1936–1938.It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and Government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and executions.In Russian Historiography the period of the most intense purge
