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(Extracts from N Pereira's article in History Today Vol. 42, August 1992)
1879
December Iosif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili (Stalin)
born in Georgia.
1899 Begins working for the Social Democratic Party.
1910 Adopts the name Stalin - 'man of steel'.
1902-13 Arrested eight times, exiled seven times, escaped six times.
1912 Appointed to Bolshevik Central committee.
1913-17
Exiled in Siberia.
1917 Returns to Petrograd following February Revolution and
becomes
editor of Pravda.
1917
October Bolshevik Revolution. Stalin appointed Chairman for
Nationality Affairs in
Sovnarkom.
1917
December Armistice agreed at
Brest-Litovsk
1918-20 Civil
War
1918 January Constituent Assembly meets, and is closed 24 hours
later by Sovnarkom.
1918 March
Treaty
of Brest-Litovsk signed.
1918
July Tsar and his family murdered at Ekaterinburg.
1918
September Red Terror introduced
1919-23
Stalin Commissar for State control.
1919
March Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist party.
1920
November Civil
War ends
1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party.
1922-3 Lenin
suffers a series of strokes.
1924
January Lenin dies.
1924 Lenin's
testament, criticising Stalin, suppressed.
1925-9
Stalin allies first with right, and then with the left to remove his rivals
for power.
Trotsky,
Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Bukharin
removed
1929 Stalin
achieves supreme power.
1929 Collectivisation
introduced. 300,000 Kulak families deported.
1929-32
Famine causing death of 5-6 million peasants.
1928-32 First
Five Year Plan.
1932-7 Second
Five Year Plan.
1935 Stakhanovite
movement begins.
1935 Great
Purge begins following the murder of Kirov in 1934.
1936 Show
trials begin.
1937
Purge of Armed Forces begins.
1939 Nazi-Soviet
Pact
1939-41
Soviet Army expands into Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,
Romania and
Finland.
1941
Neutrality pact signed with Japan.
1941 June
Germany
invades Russia.
1941-44 Siege
of Leningrad
1943 German
Army defeated and captured at Stalingrad.
1943
Soviet Army goes on the offensive.
1943 Tehran
Conference
1944 'The Year of the Ten Victories' - Germany driven out of Russia.
Soviet Armies enter Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
1945
Soviet Armies enter Germany.
1945 February
Yalta Conference.
1945 May Soviet Armies capture Berlin.
1945-9
Iron Curtain established over eastern Europe.
1946-50 Fourth
Five Year Plan.
1953
Stalin dies.
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