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The Russian war
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The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies is formedUnder pressure from the broad masses
The Petrograd soviet began to function as a body of revolutionary power, a body of the revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants -
The Cossacks declare their independence and form the Republic of the Don
With German encouragement, the Cossacks announced their independence from Russia and the establishment of the Republic of the Don. -
The separation of Orthodox church
A new ruling officially separates the Orthodox church from the state. Religious persecution ensues. Church property will get pillaged and churches destroyed. -
The Red Army has to withdraw from Kiev because of incoming Germans.
The Germans let themselves in because the Russians had just signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. -
Russia moves the capital from Petrograd to Moskow
Moscow was the capital of the Russian state. When the capital was officially transferred to St.-Petersburg, Moscow reserved some of the duties of the capital, remaining the first capital city, the place of coronation of the Russian tsars -
Belarus, backed by Germany declares independence
Belarus declared itself an independent republic for the first time, when the Rada (council) pronounced the creation of the Belarusian Peoples’ Republic. -
The Constituent Assembly gathers
popularly elected body that convened in 1918 in Petrograd to write a constitution and form a government for postrevolutionary Russia. -
The Bolshevik government nationalizes all large industry
The Decrees seemed to conform to the popular Bolshevik slogan "Peace, Bread, and Land", taken up by the masses during the July Days an uprising of workers and military forces. -
The Ukrainians declare their independence from Russia.
The defeat of the Central Powers and the signing of the armistice in November 1918 forced Germany and Austria to withdraw from Ukraine. At the same time, with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire, an independent West Ukrainian republic was proclaimed in the Galician city of Lviv. -
The Bolsheviks execute minor royals who, like the Romanovs, had been held under arrest In Yekaterinburg
Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty.
Crowned in 1896, Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve among a people desperate for change. -
The two Ukrainian states proclaimed their union in early
although independence was short-lived, as they immediately found themselves in a three-way struggle against troops from both Poland and Russia. -
The CHEKA closes down the Menshevik newspaper after it publishes strong criticism of Bolshevik policy
Cheka was instrumental in establishing domestic control and legitimacy for the Bolshevik government before concluding with an comparative analysis of the activities of the Cheka against the mandate established for it by the Bolsheviks, in order to reach an assessment of how well the government made use of the secret police -
The third Communist International, or Comintern, is convened in Moscow, with a mission to aid and advance the cause of world revolution
An international communist organization that advocated world communism. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State. -
The Bolshevik troops are repelled by Estonia
The newly formed Red Army was growing in personnel, and Vladimir Lenin could gather enough strength to replace withdrawing Western curtain forces by solid military and re-take the lands lost by Russia in 1917 by simply following the withdrawing German army. -
The Bolsheviks reconquer Ukraine
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
The Soviet Union reconquers the Bukhara khanate
The nomads of central Asia, who had produced great conquerors in the distant past, were little match for the disciplined armies of the 19th century. Raids by Muslim guerillas encouraged local Russian governors to take the initiative in subduing the central Asian khanates of Khiva and Bukhara -
Britain and the Soviet Union sign a trade agreement that reopens foreign trade
The 1940 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, also known as Economic Agreement of February 11, 1940, Between the German Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was an economic arrangement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany -
To increase production
To increase production, the Coal Ministry orders the expulsion from mining villages of anyone not working in the mines
Gurgaon Workers' News report on the history and current condition of India's significant mining industry, and workers struggles which have taken place within it. -
The stroke prevented him from speaking for several weeks,
- May 26 1922: Lenin suffers the first of three strokes Lenin suffers his first stroke Lenin suffered the first of his three The stroke prevented him from speaking for several weeks, and he was not able to return fully to work until August that year. Four months later, in December 1922, a second stroke forced him to effectively retire from politics, and his third stroke, in March 1923, left him mute and confined to his bed.
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The Ukrainian government allied themselves with Poland
the ukrain allied themselves with the country polland but it created a conflict that lead to the point were it could not withstand the Soviet assault.
