1914

WW1 starts

February to March 1917

February Revolution

Early March 1917

International Women's Day marches are joined by protestors. (Part of the February Revolution)

March 1917

Tsar abdicates

April 1917

Lenin returns from exile

June 1917

June Offensive

July 1917

July Days

August 1917

Kornilov revolt

October 1917

October revolution

November 1917

first vote for the constituent assembly

November to December 1917

Bolshevik decrees on work, land and nationalities

January 1918

Constituent assembly dissolved by Bolsheviks.

March 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

July 1918

Tsar and his family assassinated

September 1918

Red Terror begins

1918

Civil War begins

1918

War communism put in place

1920

Civil war ends

1920

Abortions made legal

March 1921

Kronstadt mutiny

1921

NEP introduced

1923

Scissors crisis

January 1924

Lenin dies

1924

USSR formed

1925

Stalin defeats Trotsky

1927

Stalin defeats the United Opposition

1927

War scare

1927 to 28

Urals-Siberia method used for first time to seize grain.

1928

First 5 year plan introduces collectivisation

1929

Stalin defeats Bukharin

1930

Closed down the Zhenotdel

1932

First Five Year Plan completed

1932

introduced internal passports.

1932

Stalin cannot persuade the Politburo to have Ryutin shot

1932 to 33

Holodomor- around 3.3 Ukrainian people starve.

1933

male homosexuality made illegal

1933

Second Five Year Plan

1934

murder of kirov

1935

Stakhanovite movement begins

1936

New constitution

1936

abortions made illegal

1936

Zinoviev and Kamenev shot, Stalin tells NKVD they are 'behind' in search for enemies.

1937

Yezhovshina begins.

1938

Last show trial, Yezhov arrested, Bukharin shot.

1938

Third Five-year plan begins

1939

Labour camp population reaches 7 million

1939

WW2 begins

1940

Deaths of Yezhov and Trotsky, USSR enters WW2

1941

USSR invaded by Germany