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Revolution in Petrograd - provisional govt set up.

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Feb 1917

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2
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Bolshevik revolution

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October 1917

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3
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Decree on land

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October 1917

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4
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Decree of peace

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October 1917

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5
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Workers’ decree

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November 1917

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6
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Decree of workers’ control

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April 1918

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7
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Nationwide elections - bolsheviks got 23% of vote

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November 1917

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8
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Constituent assembly meets for the first time and is closed 1 day later by Lenin

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January 1918

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9
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Treaty of Brest - Litovsk

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March 1918

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10
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Russian civil war

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1918-21

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11
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Lenin creates Cheka

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December 1917

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12
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Stalin launches purges

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1934

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13
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Stalin comes second to Kirov in a vote at end of congress of victors to elect a new central committee

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February 1934

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14
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Peasants in Tambov rebelled against grain requisitioning , led by Aleksandr Antonov

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Jan 1921

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15
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Peasants attacks on govt grain stores all along Volgo river

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March 1921

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16
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Strikes in cities against communist policy

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1921

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17
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Lenin authorised Cheka to destroy opposition political parties

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February 1921

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18
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what year was the party congress where NEP created

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1921

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19
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Trial of the 16- zinoviev + Kamenev executed

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1936

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20
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Trial of the 17 - Trotsky supporters

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1937

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21
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Trial of the 21 - Bukharin and supporters

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1938

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22
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Leningrad affair

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1949

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23
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Stalin becomes chair of Sovnarkom, most senior committee in the state

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1941

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24
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Politburo most senior committee

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1938

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GKO most senior committee
1942
26
Council of ministers most senior committee
1945
27
1st 5 year plan - heavy industry
1928-32
28
2nd 5 year plan - light industry
1933-37
29
3rd 5 year plan - armaments
1938-41
30
Soviet’s invade Afghanistan
December 1979
31
New soviet constitution
1977
32
Khrushchev replaced 1/2 of the regional party secretaries and 44% of the central committee
1953-56
33
Khrushchev cuts the number of central ministries from 55 to 25
1954
34
Secret speech
25th feb 1956
35
Commission set up to review cases of political prisoners in gulag
May 1954
36
51,439 prisoners including 26,155 political prisoners released from gulag
June 1956
37
Demonstrations in favour of multi party democracy at Moscow state university
1957
38
2/3 regional secretaries and the presidium were replaced
1957-61
39
Radical destalinisation halted
End of 1957
40
Senior figures in presidium began plotting Khrushchev overthrow
June 1964
41
Khrushchev retired
October 1964
42
Only 2 people promoted to politburo
1964-71
43
80-90% of central committee members retained their jobs following party congress
1966-71
44
Average age of politburo members
1966 - 58 1972 - 62 1982 - 75
45
Average age of central committee members
1961 - 52 1981 - 62
46
when Party congress bans factions
1921
47
Chernobyl
April 26th 1986 at 1:21 am
48
1986-86
Rationalisation, period of uskorenie, economic reforms
49
Reform , introduce market reforms into soviet economy, political reform to allow greater change
1987 - March 1990
50
Transformations m, horn abandoned fundamental aspects of the system, such as single party rule and command economy
March 1990 - august 1991
51
Gorb reduced alchohol production at state run factories by 50%
May 1985
52
Alchohol consumption still double that of 1960
1987
53
Soviets of age 16 still consuming around 15-16 L of alchohol a year
1987
54
Govt alchohol revenue dropped by 67 billion rubles
1987
55
Alchohol reduction campaign abandoned
1988
56
Pro Ceaușescu rally staged in Romania
December 1989
57
Coup against Gorbachev by his politburo
August 1991
58
Boris Yeltsin becomes parliamentary leader of Russia
1990
59
Gorbachev brings hardliners into govt
1990
60
Fighting in capital of lithuania, 14 killed
1991
61
12% below poverty line
1991
62
1/4 people spend all their money on food
1991
63
Only 57% of scheduled deliveries arrived
1990
64
Minsk agreements - Soviet Union breaks up
December 1991
65
when did Petrograd Trade unions council meet and give their full support to the new Bolshevik govt. and Lenins decrees
31st October 1917
66
when and how did the Red Army crush the Tambov rebellion
May 1918 - deported 10,000 to labour camps and attacked peasants with gas
67
end of Feb 1921
all Mensheviks in petrograd and Moscow were arrested and sent to prison
68
Lenin as leader
1917-24
69
Stalin as leader
1928 - 53
70
Khrushchev as leader
1953-64
71
Brezhnev as leader
1964-82
72
andropov as leader
1982-84
73
Chernenko as leader
1984-85
74
Gorbachev as leader
1985-91
75
Kirov murdered
December 1934
76
when was state capitalism the official policy of the new govt.
March to June 1918
77
years and policies about labour discipline under war communism
1918 - working day extended to eleven hours 1919 - work made compulsory for all abled bodied people 16-50
78
when did workshops in cities begin to close due to lack of fuel
late 1920
79
When was the mutiny at the Kronstadt naval base
March 1921
80
when was the NEP the USSRs policy
1921-28
81
when did production under the NEP start to plateau
1926/27 to 1928
82
years of first 5 year plan
1928-32
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years of second 5 year plan
1933-37
84
years of 3rd five year plan
1938-41
85
when was the Moscow metro's first train line opened
1935
86
when was Moscow-Volga Canal made
1932-37
87
when did Stalin introduce a nationwide incentive to address problem of low productivity and what was it
1935 - Stalin authorised higher payments and rewards for productive workers
88

Russia 1917-91 - History (9 decks)

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