Communist Government Flashcards
October Revolution
L, October 1917
Decree on Land
L, October 1917
Decree on Peace
L, October 1917
Constituent Assembly Elections
L, November 1917
Worker’s Decree
L, November 19117
Chistka - cleansing of the party
L, 1918
Cheka created
L, Dec 1917
Civil War began
L, Jan 1918
Constituent Assembly met for the 1st time, disbanded the next day
L, Jan 1918
Bolsheviks change name to communists
L, 1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
L, March 1918
Decree of Workers’ Control
L, April 1918
Bolsheviks lost Soviet Elections
L, April and May 1918
Civil War ended
L, 1921
Tambov Suppressed
L, May 1921
Kronstadt crushed
L, March 1921
Tambov peasants and Kronstadt sailors rebel
L, 1921
Resolution On Party Unity
L, 1921
Party based on Democratic Centralisation
L, 1921
Stalin becomes General Secretary
L, 1921
USSR established
L, 1922
Approved list
L, 1923
Socialism in One Country
L, 1924
The Soviet Constitution
L, 1924
Beginning of the Power Struggle
L, 1924
The Lenin Enrolment
May 1924
Politburo recieves Lenin’s Testament
May 1924
Triumvirate formed at 13th Party Congress
L, 1924
13th Party Congress
L, 1924
Duumvirate
1925
‘New Opposition’ formed
1926
Stalin is undisputed leader
1928
Lenin Dies
Jan 1924
Ryutin Affair
S, 1932
Congress of Victors
S, 1934
Murder of Kirov
S, 1934
Great Terror began
S, 1934
Trail of 16
S, 1936
Zinoviev diies
S, 1936
Kamenev dies
S, 1936
Trial of 17
S, 1937
Secret Trials
S, 1937
Purge of the Red Army
S, 1937
Trial of 21
S, 1938
Bukharin dies
S, 1938
Trotsky dies
S, 1940
Stalin is Chair of Sovnarkom
S, 1941
Operation Barbarossa
S, 1941
GKO set up (State Defence Committee)
S, June 1941
Testing Loyalty
S, 1948
Molotov’s wife expelled
S, 1948
Leningrad Affair
S, 1949
Stalin dies
S, 1953
Power Struggle (Khrushchev, Beria, Malenkov)
1953
Politburo renamed Presidium until 1966
S, 1952
Amnesty for political prisoners
K, March 1953
Start of the Cadre change
K, 1953
Beria fell (tried for treason and executed)
K, 1953
Khrushchev and Malenkov form Duumvirate
K, 1953
Anti-Bureaucracy Campaign
K, 1954
Malenkov lost his Premiership
K, Feb 1955
20th Party Congress
K, Feb 1956
Secret Speech
K< Feb 1956
Anti-Party Group
K, June 1957
Backtracking (Destalinisation)
K, 1957
Khrushchev made himself President
K, 1958
Stalin’s body removed from the Red Square
K, 1961
Khrushchev forced to resign
K, June 1964
Pact between Brezhnev and Kosygin
B, 1964
Stagnation (gerontucracy) : ‘The Congress of Silences’
B. 1966
Kosygin loses Premiership
B, 1970
New Soviet Constitution
B, 1977
Article 6
B, 1977
Brezhnev dies
B, 1982
Anti Corruption Campaign
A, Nov 1982
abandonment of ‘Stability of Cadres’
A, Nov 1982
Sovnarkom formed
L, Nov 1917
