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1937 BCE
kula ks had been eliminated and the peasants were afraid of Communist power
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1937 BCE
Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a personal dict atorship
the communist ideal was
still alive but filtered by his powerful personalit
y. He ruled over the USSR using three tools -
1929 BCE
Stalin began collectivising all farms (kolkhos)
Another
type of collectivisation were the state farms (sovk
hos): owned completely by the state,
peasants worked as labourers, so they received wage
s even if the farm did badl -
1928 BCE
the economy recovered to the level of 1914
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1924 BCE
new constitution established the USSR (Un ion of Soviet Socialist Republics).
Each
republic had a government but they all had to be co
mmunist, and the system was run
centrally by the Politburo (senior council) -
1924 BCE
Lenin died
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1921 BCE
12 Hoodinsky . Russian Civil War ( CC BY ) The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War
The Bolsheviks expected communist revolutions to br
eak out all over Europe but, except for a
small one in Germany, they did not -
1918 BCE
Russia was divided into two factions:
White Russians:. The counterrevolutionary elements,
The Red Army. At the beginning of the civil war Len
in asked Leon Trotsky, a young
Bolshevik leader, to create a new army from the Red
Guards, an army of workers. -
1917 BCE
Russia suffered as a result of the impacts of the First Wo rld War.
ore than 1.5 million soldiers had
died by the end of 1917. -
1917 BCE
Riots broke out in Petrogra
Tsar lost support and control: his soldiers
refused to fire on the mobs or deserted to join the
rioting workers -
1917 BCE
A revolution took place.
The Bolsheviks, led by Len
in, attacked the winter Palace in St.
Petersburg and seized power -
1916 BCE
the Tsar himself took control of the army
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1914 BCE
the Russian Empire joined World War I
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1905 BCE
Russia ́s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion
