Russian Revolution Timeline 1917 -1953

strikes in petrograd

1917

formation of the petrograd soviet and provisional government

1917

abidication of nicholas 11 (2nd march)

1917

return of lenin

1917

april thesis

1917

july day riots

1917

attempted Kornilov coup

1917

bolshevik seixure of power (25 th october)

1917

decrees on peace and land

1917

establishment of sovnarkom

1917

formation of the cheka

1917

consituent assembly forcibly dissolved

1917

start of civil war

1917

first soviet constitution

1917

cominterm established

1919

russo polish war

1920

kronstadt revolt

1920

10th party congress

1920

launch of NEP

1920

ban on factions

1920

widespread famine

1921 1922

stalin elected general secretary

1922

treaty of rapallo

1922

testiment dictated by lenin

1922

zinoviev letter

1924

lenins death

1924

united opposi tion formed

1926

zinoviev kamenev and trotsdky removed from the polituro

1926

treaty of berlin

1926

defeat of left opposdition

1927

shakhty trial

1928

first five year plan

1928

defeat of right opposition eg bukharin

1929

celebration of stalins 50th birthday

1929

call for mass collectivisation and liquidisation of the kulaks

1929

great famine ibn ukraine

1932 1933

second five year plan

1933

assassination of kirov

1934

soviet enty into the league of nations

1934

beginning ofg stakhonovite movement

1935

pacts signed between ussr frwance and czechoslovakia

1935

family law to restrict abortion and divorce

1936

show trials of zinoviev kamenev and others

1936

yezhov appointed head of NKVD

1936

stalins constitution

1936

soviet intervention in spanish civil war

1936

show trials of radek and others

1937

execution of marsh tukhacheveskt and red army officers

1937

heieght of great terror

1937 1938

thrid five year plan

1938

show trials of bukharin rykov andf others

1938

labour book for workers introduced

1938

yezhov replaced by beria

1938

nazi soviet pact

1939

societ invasion of eastern poland and finland

1939

soviet annexation of the baltic states

1940

nazi invasion of ussr

1941

emergency legislation

1941

beginning of siege of leningrad

1941

battle for moscow

1941

us lend lease agreed

1941

december soviet counter offensive

1941

battle of stalingrad

1942

german surrender at stalingras

1943

battle of kursk

1943

deportations from north caucasus

1943

siege of leningrad broken

1944

soviet armies advance into eastern europe

1944

soviey invasison of germany

1945

yalta conference

1945

german and japanese surrender

1945

potsdam conference

1945

beginning of zhandanovschina

1946

post war famine

1947

cominform established

1947

communist coup in czechoslovakia

1948

berlin blockade

1948

leningrad affair

1949

soviet atomic bomb

1949

doctors plot and new political purges

1952

death of stallin

1953