Russia key dates

• Red Army reaches 5m men

  1921
• War communism

  June 1918
• Cheka respond to 118 peasant uprisings

  February 1921
• Khrushchev forced to resign

  October 1964
• Stalin had been a politburo member since...

  1917
• Stalin was the only remaining original Politburo member

  1930
• Lenin dismisses personal dictatorship as 'utter nonsense'

  1919
• Nomenklatra helps party reach 1m members

  1924
• Soviet constitution

  1924
• Bolsh expand control to outlying regions of old russian empire

  1922
• Stalin appointed as general secretary

  1922
• Tomsky removed from party

  1930
• Tomsky purged

  1938
• Rykov purged

  1938
• Chistka

  1932 - 1935
• Kirov murdered

  1934
• Yezhov arrested as a scapegoat

  1939
• 1/2 of those accused by stalin rehabilitated

  1961
• Khrushchev releases political prisoners

  June 1956
• 2 people promoted to Politburo

  1964 - 1971
• Collectivisation suspended

  1930
• Factories ran out of fuel and 93 closed under Lenin

  February 1921
• queue of 6000 wait for shoes in Leningrad

  1934
• CC makes animal feed fall by 30%

  1958 - 1964
• water and electricity made more reliable due to NEP

  1926
• military spending at 1/4 of total gov spending due to arms race

  by 1952
• NEP causing grain to increase 14m a year

  1921 - 1924
• 5 motor cars per 1000 people vs USA 398 per 1000

  1966
• 4FYPS increasing women workforce to 46%

  1955
• 1FYP causing iron to double

  1928 - 1932
• collectivisation causing horses half and pigs down 65%

  1928 - 1932
• 1FYP and sea canal project killing 10k

  Winter of 1931 - 1932
• WC causing sailors to mutiny for free trade

  March 1921
• Consumer goods production up 60%

  1959 -1965
• 37k businesses taken under Decree On Nationalisation

  1920
• NEP

  1921
• 25% collectivised by...

  1930
• All farms collectivised by...

  1942
• 5M dead in Ukraine due to collectivisation

  1932 - 1933
• Stalin's collectivisation

  1928 - 1940