Stalin

Beginning of Russian Revolution. The Tsar's government falls, replaced with a Provisional Government. Bolsheviks, including Stalin, hasten to St. Petersburg.

Lenin returns from Switzerland, rebukes Stalin for supporting the Provisional Government.

Bolsheviks overthrow Provisional Government, seize power.

Civil war in Russia. Trotsky organizes Red Army; Stalin commands forces in, Petrograd

Official founding of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Stalin elected General Secretary of the Communist Party

Lenin Dies

Stalin publicly attacks Trotsky for being unfaithful to "Leninism."

1924 :

Stalin articulates his theory of "Socialism in One Country."

1925 :

Allied with Bukharin and the "Rightists," Stalin begins attacks on Zinoviev.

At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Stalin attacks the "United Opposition" of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky.

Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky sent to exile.

Beginning of the first Five-Year Plan(In the years bewteen 1928 and 32 the first 5 year plan was made and aimed to expand heavy industry fir example Coal, Iron and Steel)

Bukharin removed from the Politburo

Terrible famine across the Soviet Union; millions die

First "Show Trial." Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies confess and are executed.

Outbreak of World War II

Death of Stalin