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Kronstadt rebellion
The Kronstadt rebellion (Russian: Кронштадтское восстание, tr. Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921, during the later years of the Russian Civil War. Led by Stepan Petrichenko[1] and consisting of Russian sailors, soldiers, and civilians, the rebellion was one of the reasons for Vladimir Lenin's and the Communist Party's decision to loosen its control of the Russian economy by implementing the New Economic Policy (NEP) -
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Industrialization and collectivization
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14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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USSR in Second World War
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The beginning of the Great Patriotic War
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The last years of Stalin's rule
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Victory Day
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It was first inaugurated in the 16 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). -
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Period of struggle for power in the Soviet Union
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Stalin's death
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"Ottepel"
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Speech by Khrushchev at the 15th UN Assembly
Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident occurred during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York in 1960. During the session on 12 October, Khrushchev is said to have pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
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"Zastoy" of Brezhnev's age
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Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the country's rural countryside. -
1980 Summer Olympics
Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games – the smallest number since 1956. Led by the United States at the insistence of US President Jimmy Carter, 65 countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games under the Olympic Flag.[3] This prompted the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics. -
Gorbachev - General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee
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"Perestroyka"
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The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
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August Coup
August Coup was an attempt by members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet President and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup leaders were hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) who were opposed to Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he had negotiated which decentralised much of the central government's power to the republics -
The signing of the Belovezhsky Agreement on the creation of the CIS
