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1
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Bloody Sunday - Group of peasants shot at during a peaceful protest.

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Jan 22nd 1905

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First Duma created

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May 1906

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4th Duma shut down

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Mar 1917

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4
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National Womens day protests

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23rd Feb 1917

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Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and provisional Government created

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2nd March 1917

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June Offensive

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June 1917

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7
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July Days

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July 1917

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Kornilov Revolt

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August 1917

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9
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October Revolution

aka. Red October

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24-25th October 1917

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10
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Order Number 1 Passed

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1st March 1917

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11
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Lenin returns to Russia/ April thesis

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April 1917

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12
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Treaty of Brest Litovsk signed - Start of Civil War

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March 1918

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13
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Tsar and his family killed

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July 1918

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14
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Russian Civil War

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1918-1920 Red Win

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Krondstadt Mutiny (previously loyal sailors revolt) and NEP started

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March 1921

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16
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Formation of the USSR

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1924

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17
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Cheka (Bolshevik secret police) etablished

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1917

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18
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Lenin Dies

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Jan 1924

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19
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Stalin rises to power - defeating all opponents using tactics such as “the left turn”.

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1929

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20
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The Great Terror

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1930

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21
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Trotsky exiled from USSR for breaking Lenin’s law of factions.

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1929

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22
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First 5 year plan - Industrial Output greatly increased eg. coal, iron, steel

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1928-32

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Second 5 year Plan - Continuation of 1 but with consumer goods as well

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1933-37

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24
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Third 5 year Plan - Improvements to education, military and equipment

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1938-41 (cut short due to German invasion)

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25
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Start of collectivisation

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1928

26
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“Liquidation of the kulaks” begins

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1929

27
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Stalin halts collectivisation to deceive more farmers into harvesting

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1930

28
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The Holodomor in the Ukraine

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1932-33

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Bukharin show trial

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1938

30
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Sergei Kirov murdered, his death is blamed on Zinoview and Kamenev who are put on show trial short afterwards.

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Dec 1934

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Yezhovchina begins as Yezhov is appointed head of NKVD. Later, he was blamed for purgin and killed.

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1937-8

32
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Leon Trotsky killed in Mexico. Assasin is pardoned awarded with the order of Lenin.

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August 1940

33
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World War 2 starts

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1939

34
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Constitution made to show how the USSR was “democratic” and gain allies for the war

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1936 Constiution

35
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Event where Sergei Kirov recieved more votes that Stalin.

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1934

The 17th Party Congress

36
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Trial of Zinoviev and Kamenev?

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1936

37
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The Second Great Show Trial

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1937

21 high ranking officers were put on trial

38
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The Women’s section of the Communist party “Zhenotdel” closes down

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1930

It was believed that equality had been reached.

39
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Stalin increased the price of Divorce to try to demotivate married couples divorcing

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1936

40
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The right for a woman to have an abortion banned

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1936

This was to increase birth rate

41
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Male Homosexuality was made illegal

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1933

It was legalised in 1922 but was later outlawed by Stalin to try to “return to traditional values”

42
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By what year were there only 500 Russian Orhtodox churches remaining in the country

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1941

It had been reduced from 54,000 to 500 between 1914 and 1941.

43
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71,000 Ethnic Koreans were deported to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

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1937

44
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Going on Hajj to Mecca was banned for Muslims living in the USSR

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1930s

45
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Polish operation

100,000 Poles and “people with Polish Sympathies” were executed by the NKVD

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1937

46
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Stalins speech saying how the USSR was “50 to 100 years behind the west”

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1931

47
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The dnieper dam built

It was used as a showpiece to tell other countries how advanced the now USSR was.

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1927

48
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Average lifespan of a Tractor

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70 days

49
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The Red Terror

At least 12,000 people were executed by the Cheka (Lenin’s secret police)

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1918-21

50
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The first meeting of the constituent assembly

They were created to become a permanent and democratic government but failed

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1918

51
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Alexander Kerensky appointed Prime Minister of Russia.

He replaced Prince Lvov.

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July 1917

52
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Time period that Tsar Nicholas II ruled for

He ended the Romanov dynasty which has been going on for over 300 years.

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1896 - 1917

He took over from his father, Alexander II

53
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October Manifesto

As a reply to the revolutions occurring around the country. It included:
- Freedom of speech
- End of Censorship
- Freedom to meet openly
- The right to form political Parties
Many of these were not upheld
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1905

54
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Rasputin dies

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1916

55
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The Decrees of 1917

Included decrees on; Land, peace, work, press, banking, marriage.

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November and December 1917

56
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Ex mensheviks shot as “wreckers”

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1931

57
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53 managers of Shakhty coal mines put on trial after being accused of conspiring to sabotage the Soviet Economy.

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1928

58
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Henrikh Yagoda head of NKVD

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July 1934 - 1936

59
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Ryutin Affair

Martemyan Ryutin Crisitcises Stalin and collectivisation. The politburo would not let Stalin kill him and is then imprisoned. Later he is killed after being retried in 1937.

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1932

60
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Nikolai Yezhov head of NKVD

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1936 - 1938

Later killed in 1939 secretly after being blamed and confessing to crimes he did not committ. Edited out of photos.

61
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Stalin Constitution

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1936

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