The Highlights of Soviet History

• 1917 (March) The Russian Revolution brings a Social Democratic government under Kerensky to power
• 1917 (Summer) Leon Trotsky organizes the Red Army
• 1917 (October) Bolsheviks sieze power.
• 1918-1921 War Communism
• 1921 Famine
• 1921 Lenin formulates the New Economic Policy (NEP)
• 1922 Soviet Union formed
• 1924 Lenin's death
• 1926 End of the New Economic Policy
• 1927-1931 Stalin's First Five Year Plan
• 1930-33 Collectivization of Agriculture
• 1930's Five Year Plans and Purge Trials
• 1939-1945 World War II
• 1953 Stalin's death
• 1955-1964 Khrushchev's regime
• 1964-1982 Brezhnev's regime
• 1985-1991 Gorbachev's regime
• 1980's Perestroika
• 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union