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25 Cards in this Set
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1914-1918
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WWI. Russia an Ally. Petersburb -> Petrograd
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February 1917
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Bourgeois Revolution, ends Russian Empire
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November 1917
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October Revolution, or the Bolshevik Revolution (Trotsky, Lenin, etc.)
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1918
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Capital moves to Moscow
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1918-1922
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Civil War (1.25 million die)
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1920
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Peace treaties with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland (international blockade is broken down)
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1921-1927
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Lenin launches the New Economic Plan, "one step back"
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1922
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USSR officially established
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1924
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Lenin dies
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1924-1929
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Struggle for leadership. Trotsky seeks universal socialism, Stalin wants one country socialism. Stalin wins.
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1928
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Stalin replaces NEP with a centralized economy and Five Year Plans; industrialization and collectivization in countryside
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1933
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US formally recognizes USSR, diplomatic relations established
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1936
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New Constitution
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1936-1939
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Great Purges
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1941-1945
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Great Patriotic War
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1946-1991
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Cold War (Iron Curtain Speech)
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1947-1953
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"Battle against rootless consumption"
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1949
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NATO is signed
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March 1953
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Stalin dies
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1956
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XX Congress of the Communist Party denounces Stalin's cult of personality. The Thaw begins with millions returned from the Gulag.
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1961
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Gagarin's flight, first man in space
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1968
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Soviet Army invades Czechoslovakia--end of the Thaw
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1972
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Nixon visits USSR, policy of Detente
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1985
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Gorbachev's perestroika begins
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1991
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USSR dissolves
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