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Russia 1853-1936 Flashcards

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1853-56

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Crimean war

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1855

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Alexander II comes to the throne

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1861

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Edict of Emancipation of the serfs

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1881

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Alexander II assassinated

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1864

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Zemstva formed

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1855-81

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Over 13400 miles of railway built

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1866

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Attempt on Alexander II’s life

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1863

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Polish revolt

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1890

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Zemstva act meant reduced peasant representation

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1881

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Okhrana established

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1892

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Municipal Government Act meant local self government was subject to constant interference by government

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1881

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Statute published giving government far-reaching powers with regard to civil liberties

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1886

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Higher education for women closed

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1887

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Lenin’s brother Alexander executed

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1887

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Increase in university and secondary school fees excluded all but the wealthy

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1890

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New curriculum reduced time studying latin and greek (Russification)

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1885

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Minister of justice given increased disciplinary powers over the judiciary

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1889

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Crimes against state officials were to be heard in special courts without jury

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1897

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Census shows that only 21% of population literate

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1889

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Volost justices (exclusively for peasants) abolished

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1886

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Poll tax ended

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1889

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Land Captains replaced the elected Justices of the Peace. They could suspend verdicts and cancel decisions

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1891

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350 000 die in famine due to weather and epidemics of cholera and typhus

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1883

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Peasant land bank provides cheap loans to buy land

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1882

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Factory legislation where women and children’s working hours are reduced

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1897

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Witte introduces new rouble linked to the gold standard - in the hope that it would increase investors’ confidence

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1892

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Trans-Siberian railway started

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1904

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Trans-Siberian railway completed. Connected Moscow and Vladivostok

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1881

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Alexander III comes to throne

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1886

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revival of People’s Will

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1892

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Witte’s rapid industrialisation programme begins

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1894

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Nicholas II comes to throne

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1896

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Witte encouraged migration to Siberia

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1897

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Bund (Jewish socialist organisation) formed and Lenin exiled to Siberia

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1898

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Plekhanov - Marxist - founds Social Democratic Workers’ Party

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1899

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Minister of Education assassinated and control over universities tightened by making them wear uniforms

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1900

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90% of finance behind mining and metallurgy came from foreign investment

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1902-04

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Peasant attacks on landlords in Poltava and Kharkov districts

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1901

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Lenin publishes ‘What is to be done?’ emphasising elite party and revolution

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1901

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Chernov founds Social Revolutionary party - terrorist factions form

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1902

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Witte issues Martial Law and from thereon in dubbed ‘the hangman’

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1903

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SDs split in to Bolsheviks (Lenin) and Mensheviks (Martov)

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1904

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Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War (until 1905)

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1904

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SRs assassinate Plehve

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Jan 05

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Revolution - begins with strikes at Putilov iron works but spreads to whole of Russia and epitomised on Bloody Sunday

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oct 1905

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October Manifesto issued and Kadets and Octobrists formed

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1905

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Ultra-conservative nationalists called ‘The Black Hundreds’ attack Jews

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1906-11

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Stolyepin’s agrarian reforms ended redemption payments - encouraged migration to Siberia - set out to end Mir system and strip farming.

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1906

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First Duma. Short lived because of too many divisions

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1906

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Fundamental Laws gave ‘Supreme Autocratic Power’ to Tsar giving him right of veto. Could still govern by decree

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1906

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Stolyepin introduces Martial law

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1906-07

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Stolyepin introduces measures to restore the peasants’ sense of security by ending strip farming

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1909

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saw a peak in the number of peasant households that set up independen farms - 580000

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1912

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Lena Goldfields incident where miners demanded better pay and conditions but were met by Okhrana

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1914

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Outbreak of WW1

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1915

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Progressive Bloc formed of Kadets

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sep 1915

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Tsar Nicholas II becomes commander-in-chief on the front line.

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dec 1916

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Rasputin murdered

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1913-16

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price of salt rose by 483%

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march 1917

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Tsar Nicholas II abdicates on the 15th

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march 1917

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Nicholas’ brother Grand Duke Michael refuses the crown on the 16th

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june 1916

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Brussilov offensive. initially successful against Germans and relieved the French at Verdun

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1900 and 1902

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Poor harvests, leading to starvation and violence in the countryside

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after 1902

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economic slump

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jan 1905

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Lost Port Arthur in Russo-Japanese war

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1904

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Liberal groups set up ‘Union of Liberation’ in St Petersburg

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1907

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Second Duma. Dissolved with little achievements

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1907 - 1912

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Third Duma. Successful with setting up schools and national insurance for industrial workers

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1912 - 1914

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Fourth Duma. Dissolved because of war

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april 1917

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USA enters WW1 giving Russia (and allied powers) hope of victory

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june 1917

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First all-Russian congress of soviets meet in Petrograd

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june 1917

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June offensive against Austria - huge losses (400,000) and desertions and mutinies

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8th july 1917

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Kerensky becomes PM and moves ino Winter Palace

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5th July 1917

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Provisional government troops cleared the streets of Bolshevik protestors

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25th oct 1917

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Second All-Russian congress of Soviets: Lenin giving his government the stamp of legitimacy

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24th oct 1917

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Kerensky sent troops to arrest Bolsheviks and shut down Bolshevik newspapers

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aug 1917

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Kornilov Coup - Bolsheviks now armed and army had little faith in provisional government

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April 1917

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April theses as Lenin returns from Switzerland in a sealed train - Germany also wanted to end the war with Russia

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nov 1917

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Decree on land. Abolished private property

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nov 1917

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Decree on workers’ control - instructed workers’ committees to maintain strict order in the workplace. Vesenkha (supreme council of the national economy) was set up to oversee it

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june 1918

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decree on nationalisation - banks, factories, railways and mines were nationalised

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july 1918

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new constitution introduced - sovnarkom (bolshevik govt) at top, then congress, then local soviets

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1919

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power divided in to two sub-committees: Politburo (high policy) and Orgburo (internal administration)

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mar 1918

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treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany - devastating losses and harsh terms for Russia

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jan 1918

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red army established

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may 1918

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conscription to red army introduced

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jul 1919

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Trotsky offers his resignation because of criticism but is refused

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mar 1921

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Treaty of Riga (establishing Polish-Russian border) signed

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mar 1921

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peace treaty of Riga signed by Russia and Poland - established border

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mar 1921

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Kronstadt uprising; Bolsheviks show their strength in a bloody battle against the Kronstadt sailors

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june 1918 - nov 1920

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Russian Civil war; reds vs whites

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dec 1922

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U.S.S.R established

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jan 1924

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Lenin dies; power struggle ensues

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1918

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Red terror

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1921

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New Economic Policy (NEP) established. Followed by Kronstadt uprising and heavily cricised by many -replaced by Stalin’s Five Year Plan in 1928

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1918-21

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War Communism

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1922

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Stalin made general-secretary of the communist party

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1919

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Stalin becomes head of the Orgburo (organisation)

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1925

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Trotsky removed from position on War Commissar

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1928-32

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First Five Year plan. End of NEP; emphasis on rapid industialisation. In reality, most targets were not met

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1926

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Treaty of Berlin with Germany. Both countries pledged neutrality if they were to be attacked

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1929

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Trotsky exiled

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by 1940

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Entire politburo had been purged/wiped out

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1929

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Kolkhoz (collective farms) established.

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1932-33

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Holodomor. Worst famine in Russia’s history, 11 MILLION dead in the Ukraine - seen by many as genocide as Stalin continued the grain requisitioning and collectivisation

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1936

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Zinoviev and Kamenev executed in ‘Show Trials’

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1934

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Assassination of Kirov (suspicious as to who did it - could have been on Stalin’s orders). Provided a pretext for the purges of the 1930s

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