Russia Timeline

  • Russo-Japanese war

  • Bloody Sunday

  • Russia Enters WWI

  • Bolsheviks take control

  • Nicholas II abdicates

    Nicholas II abdicates
  • Provisional government

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Successful war with Finland

  • Russian Civil War

  • Romanov Family Murdered

  • New Economic Policy

  • Soviet Union Established

  • Death of Lenin

  • Stalin's Five Year Plans Begin

  • Collectivization of Ukraine

  • Great purge

  • Stalin and Hitler sign non-aggression pact

    Stalin and Hitler sign non-aggression pact
  • Operation Barbarossa

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Soldiers of US and USSR meet at River Elbe

  • Berlin Blockade

  • First Soviet atomic bomb tested

  • Death of Stalin

  • Warsaw Pact creates

  • Hungarian Revolt crushed

  • Launch of Sputnik I

  • Khrushchev takes control of USSR

  • Berlin Wall constructed

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis
  • SALT Treaty Signed

  • Ussr invades Afghanistan

  • Gorbachev becomes leader

  • Commonwealth of Independent States Created

  • Boris Yeltsin wins second term in election

    Boris Yeltsin wins second term in election