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103 Cards in this Set
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1870
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Birth Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin)
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1881
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Assassination Alexander II by People's Will; accession Alexander III, League of Three Emperors formed; Intro of repressive 'temporary laws'
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1885
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intro new 'repressive code'
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1887
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university statute restricts academic freedom; re-insurance Treaty; execution of Lenin's older bros
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1889
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creation of land captains
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1890
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Zemstva Act
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1891 - 92
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Construction of Trans-Siberian Railway
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1892
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Franco-Russian convention
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1893 - 1903
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Sergei Witte Minister of Finance introduces economic reforms associated with 'the great spurt'
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1894
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accession of Nicholas II
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1897
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Formation of Jewish Bund
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1898
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SD Party formed
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1902
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Lenin's Pamphlet 'What is to be Done' published
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1903
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SDs split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
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1904
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Anglo-French Entente
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1904-05
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Russo Japanese War
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January 1905
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Bloody Sunday Massacre marks the start of the 1905 Revolution
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February 1905
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Wave of Strikes and nationwide unrest
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March 1905
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Russian Defeat Mukden
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May 1905
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'Union of Unions' formed led by Milyukov; Russian fleet destroyed at Tsushima
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June 1905
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Mutiny aboard the battleship 'Potemkin'
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August 1905
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Consultative Duma announced
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September 1905
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Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty signed; fresh wave of industrial strikes
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October 1905
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Kadet Party formed; Formation of St.Petersburg soviet; St.Petersburg crippled by a general strike; Tsar issues October Manifesto
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November 1905
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Formation of Moscow soviet
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December 1905
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Moscow soviet suppressed by force
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April 1906
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Fundamental Laws promulgated by Nicholas II
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April-June 1906
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First Duma
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August 1906
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Stolypin appointed as chief minister
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1906 - 1911
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Stolypin introduces a series of Agrarian Reforms
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Feb - June 1907
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Second Duma
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November 1907
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Third Duma; Rasputin enters Tsar's court; Triple Entente between France, Russia & Britain
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1911
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Assassination of Stolypin
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1912
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Serious disturbances in Lena, Siberian goldfields
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June 1912
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End of Third Duma
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November 1912
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Start of Fourth Duma; 'Pravda' published
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1912-1913
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Balkan Wars
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1914-1917
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WWI; Russia suffers military defeats; increasing social and political unrest
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June 1914
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Assassination Franz Ferdinand at Sarejevo
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29/07/1914
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Full Mobilisation Russian Military
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01/08/1914
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Germany declares war on Russia
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August 1914
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Fourth Duma suspended
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June - July 1915
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Fourth Duma reconvened
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August 1915
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Tsar becomes Commander-in-Chief
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November 1916
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Duma Reconvened
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December 1916
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Rasputin Murdered
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18 Feb - 4 March 1917
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February 'Revolution'
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18/02/1917
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Strike begins Putilov factories
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23/02/1917
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International Women's Day; workers' demonstrations on streets
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25/02/1917
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General Strike
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27/02/1917
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Unofficial meeting of committee of Duma; first meeting of Petrograd Soviet
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28/02/1917
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Nicholas II unsuccessfully attempts to return to Petrograd
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01/03/1917
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'Soviet Order Number I'
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02/03/1917
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Provisional Govt formed from Duma Committee; Nicholas signs decree of Abdication
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03/03/1917
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New Govt publicly declared
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04/03/1917
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Formal declaration of Romanov abdication
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14/03/1917
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Soviet Issues 'Address to the People of the Whole World'
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03/04/1917
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Lenin returns to Petrograd
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04/04/1917
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Lenin issues 'April Theses'
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26/06/1917
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Major military offensive launched against Austro-German armies on the south western front
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02/07/1917
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Ukrainian issue leads to ministerial crises
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3-6 July 1917
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July Days Uprising
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06/07/1917
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Lenin flees from Petrograd
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08/07/1917
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Kerensky becomes PM
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18/07/1917
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Kornilov becomes Commander-In-Chief
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August 1917
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German forces advance threatens Petrograd
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26 August - 1 Sept 1917
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Kornilov Affair
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25/09/1917
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Bolsheviks gain majority in Petrograd Soviet; Trotsky elected as Chairman
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07/10/1917
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Lenin slips back into Petrograd
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10/10/1917
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Bolshevik Central Committee commits itself to armed insurrection
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12/10/1917
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Petrograd soviet sets up MRC
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23/10/1917
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Kerensky orders closure of 'Pravda' and 'Izvestiya'; Lenin instructs Bolsheviks to begin uprising against Kerensky's government
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24/10/1917
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First Session of Congress of Soviets
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24 - 25 October 1917
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Bolsheviks take control of Petrograd
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25-26 October 1917
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Kerensky leaves Petrograd to rally support but fails; Bolsheviks take the Winter Palace
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26/10/1917
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Bolsheviks establish 'Sovnarkom' - Lenin is Chairman
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27/10/1917
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Lenin informs the Congress of Soviets that the Bolshevik-led Petrograd Soviet has seized power in their name
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08/11/1917
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Bolsheviks issue the Decrees on Land, on Peace and on Workers' Control
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11/11/1917
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Elections for the Constituent Assembly begin
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01/12/1917
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'Vesenkha' established
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02/12/1917
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Armistice signed at Brest-Litovsk
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07/12/1917
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'Cheka' created
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1918-1920
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Russian Civil War; Reds versus Whites
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5-6 January 1918
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Meeting and Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
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15/01/1918
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Decree establishing the Red Army
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03/03/1918
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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12/03/1918
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Soviet capital transferred to Moscow
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04/04/1918
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Beginning of foreign interventions
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May 1918
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Czech Legion begins to create problems for the Bolsheviks; marks the start of the Civil War
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June 1918
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Decree on Nationalism
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July 1918
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Beginning of forced grain requisitions from peasants
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04/07/1918
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Russian state becomes RSFSR
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16-17July 1918
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Murder of Tsar and family at Ekaterinburg
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05/09/1918
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Red Terror officially introduced
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March 1919
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First Congress of the Comintern; Bolshevik Party renamed the Communist Party
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February 1920
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GOELRO established
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April 1920
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Red Army marches into Poland
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November 1920
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Civil War effectively ends with the defeat of the Whites in Crimea
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March 1921
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Kronstadt Rising; Lenin introduces the NEP at the 10th Conference of the CPSU, which also accepts the decree against factionalism
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1922-23
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Lenin suffers a number of increasingly severe strokes; his ability to control events increasingly limited
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December 1922
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Soviet state becomes USSR; Lenin completes his 'Testament' critical of all leading Bolsheviks
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October 1923
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the 'Scissors' crises
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21/01/1924
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Lenin's death
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