In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SFSR.
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Established following a decree by Lenin on 19 December, the Cheka’s focus was on defending the revolution by removing internal threats to the communist regime.
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
On 7 March 1921, the Red Army launched an attack on Kronstadt across the frozen Gulf of Finland. The battle lasted for nearly two weeks, with heavy casualties on both sides.
The ‘storming of the Winter Palace’ presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a fabrication.
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.
Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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