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bolsheviks revolution
- Bolsheviks overthrow government led by Alexander Kerensky, and take over government buildings and the Winter Palace.
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Civil War
Civil war between Bolsheviks, and anti-Bolsheviks, -
five year plan
1928 - Adoption of first Five-Year Plan, with state-set goals.
millions of peasants get their property taken -
death pf stalin
- Stalin dies and is succeeded by Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
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i spy
Soviet Union shoots down US spy plane U-2 over Soviet territory. -
cuban missile crisis
Cuban missile crisis starts because of Soviet missiles in Cuba. -
rebellions
Soviet troops leave Afghanistan; nationalist riots put; Lithuanian Communist Party declares its independence from the Soviet Communist Party -
yeltsin
Communist Party votes to end one-party rule; Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and leaves the Soviet Communist Party. -
banned
Yeltsin bans the Soviet Communist Party in Russia -
agreements
Leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus sign agreement of Commonwealth of Independent States -
over
Russian government takes over offices of USSR in Russia.
