Timeline - Russia before Stalin

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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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