Stalin rise to power USSR

By Dillon Hatley

  • Joseph Stalin is born

  • Stalin starts to read Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" for the first time.

  • Stalin arrested for first time

  • Appointed to Central Committe of Bolsheviks

  • Russian Revolution begins

  • Russian Civil war begins

  • Stalin elected to General Secretary of Communist party

  • Lenin's death

  • Stalin begins the Great Terror

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed

  • Trotsky Assassination

  • USSR controls all of Easter Europe

  • Death of Joseph Stalin