On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
16th October 2020
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.
On the 20th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was established.
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.