Timeline - Russia before Stalin

1894 - November: Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia 1903 - August: The Social Democratic Party splits (formation of the Bolsheviks) 1905 - 1905 Revolution 1914 - August: Russia joins the First World War 1917 - February: February Revolution (Tsar abdicates) 1917 - March: Formation of the Provisional Government 1917 - April: Lenin returns from exile 1917 - October: October revolution (Bolsheviks seize power) 1917 - December: Cheka established 1918 - March: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia surrenders to Germany and withdraws from the First World War) 1918 - The Bolshevik Party changes its name and becomes the Communist Party. 1918 - June: Beginning of the Civil War and War communism 1921 - February: End of the Civil War 1921 - March: The Red Army crushes the Kronstadt Rebellion and the NEP is introduced. 1921 - July: The Red Army crushes the Tambov Rebellion 1922 - December: The creation of the USSR (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

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