Russia and the USSR

• Petrograd Strikes

  25th Febuary 1917
• Soldiers Strike in Petrograd Garrison

  27th Febuary 1917
• Nicholas II abdicates 


  2nd March 1917
• Provisional Government is set up


  3rd March 1917
• Lenin returns to Russia

  16th April 1917
• Lenin publishes the April Thesis


  April 1917
• The July Days take place


  16th - 20th July 1917
• The Kornilov revolt


  September 1917
• Bloody Sunday


  22nd January 1905
• Russo-Japan war


  1904 - 1905
• Rasputin is hired


  1907
• Storming of the Winter Palace


  25th October 1917
• Bolsheviks issue their decrees


  November - December 1917
• Elections for the Constituent Assembly


  November 1917
• The Cheka is created


  December 1917
• The Constituent assembly is stopped


  January 1918
• Treaty of Brest-Litosvsk


  March 1918
• Tsar and the Romanovs executed


  16th July 1918
• Red Terror starts


  September 1918
• Kronstadt mutiny


  March 1921
• NEP


  1921 - 1928
• Russia becomes the USSR


  1922
• Lenin dies


  1924
• Cheka renamed the OGPU


  1923
• Trotsky resigns as the Commissar of War


  1925
• Zivovev, Kamevev and Trotsky expelled


  1927
• Stalin starts his new policies: First 5 year plan, collectivisation


  1928
• War communism


  1918 - 1920
• Rykov, Tomsky and Bukharin removed


  1929
• OGPU renamed to NKVD


  1934
• Kirov murdered


  1st December 1934
• Show trials begin

  1936
• 7 million in labour camps from the purges


  1938
• Trotsky murdered


  1940
• The Purges


  1936 - 1938
• The Great Famine


  1932 - 1933
• The start of the second 5 year plan


  1933
• The Stakhanovite movement


  1935
• 3rd Five Year Plan


  1938