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Russo-Japanese War
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Duma is Created
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WW1
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Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne
In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate -
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Russian Civil War
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Duma becomes the Provisional government
The Provisional Government was formed in Petrograd in 1917 by the Provisional Committee of the State Duma -
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November Revolution
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Stalin takes over as Secretary of the Communist Party
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Lenin dies
Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. -
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1st 5 year plan
the first Five-Year Plan, implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods -
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2nd 5 year plan
2nd wave of the first 5 year plan -
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Stalin’s “Great Purge”
a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat -
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WW2
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II -
Destalinization
the policy of eradicating the memory or influence of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism -
Nixon/Khruschev “Kitchen Debate”
a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959 -
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Perestroika
A program instituted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s to restructure Soviet economic and political policy -
Gorbachev takes over as General Secretary of the communist party
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Glasnost
The policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Soviet Union