The Fall of the Soviet Union

By Ayg6296

  • the bolshevik revolution

    the bolshevik revolution
    The Bolsheviks, originally alsowere a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    This event ended the Russian Civil War in the year 1918 between Russia and Germany. Lenin wanted the treaty to end the war and focus on the work that was needed in Russia for them.

  • War with Poland

    War with Poland

  • Peace Treaty

    Peace Treaty
    Peace treaty with Poland was signed which ended the war and new Economic Policy brings in a partial return to the market economy and a period of stability.

  • What is the Soviet Union

    What is the Soviet Union
    Soviet Union , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed between 1922 and 1991, ruled as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.

  • Union Treaty

    Union Treaty
    Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus — which were divided in 1936 into Geor­gia, Arme­nia and Azer­bai­jan — into the Soviet Union.

  • Five-Year Plan

    Five-Year Plan
    The state set goals and priorities for the whole economy with the first Five-Year Plan that signified the end of the New Economic Policy.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev ( born 2 March 1931), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the first (and last) president of the Soviet Union from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

  • World War II

    World War II
    The USSR won back land in World War II

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
     Germany invades the USSR and by the end of the year occupies Belarus and most of Ukraine, and surrounds Leningrad

  • Two- Tiered policy

    Two- Tiered policy
    Gorbachev introduced a two-tiered policy of reform. On one level, he initiated a policy of glasnost, or freedom of speech. On the other level, he began a program of economic reform known as perestroika, or rebuilding.

  • The soviet union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries

    The soviet union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
    In 1991, the soviet union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for a fridom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalsm over socialism.

  • august putsch

    august putsch
    The August Days (19–21 August 1991), was an attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.

  • Soviet Union Falls

    Soviet Union Falls
    The Soviet Union had fallen, due to the large number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. It was officially ended its own existence on December 25, 1991