Triumph And Collapse - Ussr

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Volga Germans Deported

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1941

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War- Holidays abolished + 3 hours compulsory overtime

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1941

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Invasion of the USSR

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June - 1941

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Moscow counter-offensive

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June - 1941

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Lend lease begins

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1941?

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Fall of Berlin

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April 1945

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Currency reform - less in circulation

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1947

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First Nuclear Test

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1949

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fourth Five-year plan

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1946

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Leningrad purge

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1946

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yalta/Potsdam conferences

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1945

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Start of anti-Cosmopolitanism

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1945

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Crimean Tartars deported

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43-44

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Harvest losses around a 3rd during war, particularly bad year

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1943

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Doctor's plot

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1953

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USSR Hydrogen bomb

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1953

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Virgin Lands proposed

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1954

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Khrushchev elected first secretary

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1953

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Stalin dies

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March - 1953

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Malenkov resigns

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1955

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Warsaw Pact set up

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1955

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Gomulka starts Polish Thaw
Riots in Poland - SU restores order

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1953
1956

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Crimean Tartars Liberated

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1956

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Secret Speech

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1956

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New Criminal Code

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1958

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Berlin Wall built

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1961

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Yuri Gagarin Space orbit

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1961

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

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Khrushchev deposed

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1964

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Oil discovered in Siberia

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1964

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Demonstrations "Respect the constitution!"

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1965

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Sinyavsky-Daniel trial

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1966

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Decentralised ministries abolished

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1965

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New Clause to criminal code 'Violations to public order not tolerated'

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1966

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Prague Spring - Crushed by warsaw pact (Brezhnev Doctrine)

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1968

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Kosygin reforms

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1965

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Esther Boserup - Technology will find a way

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1965

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Kosygin reforms abandoned

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1970

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SALT

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1972

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Oil crisis

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1973

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Economy slows

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1973

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Helsinki Accords

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1975

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Helsinki groups disbanded

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1982

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Brezhnev Constitution

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1977

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"Developed Socialism!"

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1977

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Pro Russian Gvt overthrew Afghan republic

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1978

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War in Afghanistan

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1979

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Russian Federation absorbs __ % of capital investment in ___

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62%
1980

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By this year Brezhnev had got 8 supporters into the Politburo

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1981

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Moscow Olympics!
Us Boycott

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1980

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Death of Brezhnev

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1982

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Death of Andropov

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1984

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Death of Chernenko

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1985

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Gorbachev elected General Secretary

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1985

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Distilleries closed

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1985

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Law on Individual Labour activity

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1986

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Chernobyl

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1986

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Law on Joint Enterprises

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1986

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Law on State enterprises - More control for enterprises

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1987

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Food rationing

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1988

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Estonian Supreme Soviet declares that it's laws supercede those of the USSR

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1988

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georgian march for Independence

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1989

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Berlin Wall down

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1989

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Georgia Declares Sovereignty

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November - 1989

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Belorussia - Popular opposition

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1990

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Coup

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August 1991

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Ukraine declares Sovereignty

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1991

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200% increase in Agricultural investment

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76-80

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5.5% increase in private consumption

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Brezhnev Era!

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Brezhnev arms as a percentage of gnp

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25%

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Black market contributions to GNP

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20%

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Krillin deputy PM calls for radical industrial restructuring to avoid economic collapse

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1979 - promptly sacked

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Space and arms prioritised but Computer Technology neglected

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Brezhnev era!

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Georgia march for independence
Declared Sovereignty

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April 89
Nov 89

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Ukraine party split into conservative and pro reformers
Accompanying nationalism protests

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Late 80s

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Ukrainian Sovereignty

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July 91

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Baltic States nationalist demonstrations

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1989

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Estonian Supreme Soviet declares that its laws supercede the USSRs

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1988

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Gorbachev visited Lithuania to save party rift

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1990

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Lithuania declares Independence
Soviet forces invade
Who recognised their independence?

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1990
1991
Boris Yeltsin

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CIS created
Who?

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Dec 91
Russia Ukraine and Belorussia

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Debate On Brezhnev Russification
Pro:
Against:

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All-Union institutions increasingly Russified
Ignored local corruption
Regime backed down against nationalist protests
(Language, culture)

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Brezhnev's impact, pro:

Against:

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Nationalities held together by force, insoluble -Tompson
Storing trouble up for the future, provoking resentment by Russification

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Oil Discovered

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1964

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Reykjavik Conference

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1986

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Zero Option

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Abolish all nuclear Missiles

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What Did Reagan insist on keeping?

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SDI - Strategic Defence Initiative

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Gorbachev visited Regan in US
Signed:

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1987
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty - A whole class of nuclear weapons abolished