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Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government. -
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Civil War
Policy of "War Communism" began with the state taing control of the whole economy. -
Treaty
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a peace treaty between new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and Central Powers. -
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New Economic Policy
New Economic Policy led to a partial return of a market economy with a time of stability. -
Stalin
Stalin becomes dictator. -
Five Year Plan
First Five Year Plan was adopted setting goals for the whole economy, marking the end of the New Economic Policy. -
Non Aggression Pact
Soviet Union and Nazi Germany conclude a non-aggression pact, Germany invades Poland which starts World War II. -
Stalin dies
Stalin dies and is succeeded by Georgi Malenkov as prime minister and by Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact is formed. -
New secretary of the communist party
Khrushchev is replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin becomes prime minister. -
New secretary of communist party
Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Communist Party -
End of Communism
Gorbachev proposes economic and political reform which led to the end of Communism.