Events
Bloody SundayTsar Nicolas II promises a DumaThe October ManifestoFundamental laws introducedProtesting miners were massacred by the tsars troopsRussia enters the first world warProvisional government is establisedThe Red TerrorFebruary Revolution overthrows the TsarThe October RevolutionThe Constituent AssemblyParty Congress bans factionsRussia becomes a one party stateCommunists
win the civil
warNew Economic Policy introducedLenin diesStalin emerges as party leaderPrivate criticism of Stalin
expressed at the Congress
of VictorsKirov is murdered in LeningradFirst of the show trialsYezhov becomes head of
the secret police. The great
terror intensifies.Stalin diesKhruschev's secret speech and the start of de-stalinisationGreater freedom of expression
is permitted following the World
festival of youth and studentsKhrushchev removed from officeNew criminal code tightens laws on political dissent25th party congressBrezhnev becomes increasingly
ill and unable to govern effectivelyGermany invades Russia and
Russia enter the second world warPeriods
Tsar Nicolas IIProvi-
sional
govern-
mentVladimir LeninJoseph StalinGreg-
ory
Malen-
kovNikita KhrushchevLeonid BrezhnevFirst World WarThe Great TerrorSecond World War
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