Major points to the start of the Soviet Union (nov 12, 1917 – jan 21, 1924)

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12 November 1917: Constituent assembly takes place with the Soviets having the most amounts of seats and the Bolsheviks having less than 1/4

2nd December 1917: Armistice made between Russia and the Central Powers signed to stop fighting between each other. Food at this time is 1/4 pound of bread per day for each person and is still sold but at widely high prices.

5-6th January 1918: Bolsheviks stop the Constituent Assembly from ever happening.

3 March 1918: Brest-Litovsk Treaty, Russia ends its presence in World War 1. Bolshevik Russia loses one-third of the old empire’s population, one-third of its railway network, half its industry, three-quarters of its supplies of iron ore, nine-tenths of its coal resources and much of its food supplies.

8 March 1918: Bolsheviks change the name of their party to the Russian Communist Party. The Russian capital is also moved from Petrograd to Moscow this year.

10th July 1918: Men and women were made equal in Russia by the government.

16-17th July 1918: Execution of the Tsar and his family by the Bolsheviks.

11 August 1918:Lenin telegrams communists in Penza and Central Russia to publicly execute wealthy persons due to uprisings occurring.

March 1919:Comiturn is formed in Moscow, a party made for the only purpose of spreading communism in other nations across the world.

1920: Communist parties made in many nations

November 1920: Red Army invades Crimea, pushing out the White Army which was trying to stop communism in Russia

1921:Start of the year with the rouble losing 96% of its pre-war value; industrial production has fallen to 10% of its 1913 level. The population of Petrograd has fallen from 2.5 million in 1917 to 600,000 in 1920.

March 1921
The Kronstadt mutiny, an unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks, takes place.

March 1921
End of ‘War Communism’ and the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP).

3 April 1922
Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party.

December 1922
Creation of the Soviet Union.

21 January 1924
Lenin dies, leading to a power struggle within the party. Stalin emerges as Party leader. His rival Leon Leon Trotsky is dismissed, then exiled and finally murdered in 1940.

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