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.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
The ‘storming of the Winter Palace’ presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a fabrication.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.
Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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