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    • 1917 down-arrow.svg
      • EVENTS down-arrow.svg
        • February Revolution
        • Formation of the Soviets
        • April Crisis
        • Revolution in the Army
        • July Days
        • Kornilov Affair
        • Bolsheviks Seize Power
        • First Bolshevik Decrees
        • Constituent Assembly
        • Treaty of Brest Litovsk
      • FOUR KINDS OF STATES down-arrow.svg
        • Communist Party Building
        • Economic Apparatus
        • Building the Soviets
        • Red Guard into Army
        • State Security
      • DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY down-arrow.svg
        • Depopulation of the Cities
        • Food Supply
        • Conflict with the Church
        • Death of the Old Culture
        • Destruction of the Left
        • The Empire Falls
      • CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY down-arrow.svg
        • New Letters and Dates
        • Culture and Revolution
        • The New Woman
        • Workers Organization
        • Peasant Revolution
        • Organs of the Press
        • Raising Socialist Youth
    • 1921 down-arrow.svg
      • The Antonov Rebellion
      • Comintern
      • Confiscating Church Gold
      • Death of a Poet
      • Electrification Campaign
      • Famine of 1921-22
      • Homeless Children
      • Kronstadt Uprising
      • Militarization of Labor
      • The Muslim East
      • The New Economic Policy
      • ROSTA Windows Close
      • Tenth Party Congress
      • Trade Pacts with the West
      • Transcaucasia
      • Workers’ Opposition
    • 1924 down-arrow.svg
      • Antireligious Propaganda
      • Chervontsy
      • Death of Lenin
      • Industrialization Debate
      • Lenin Enrollment
      • Lenin’s Succession
      • Living Church
      • Nepmen
      • Revolutionary Manliness
      • Scissors Crisis
      • KINO: Creating a Socialist Cinema
      • Socialist Legality
      • Union Treaty
      • Workers’ Clubs
      • Young Communists
    • 1929 down-arrow.svg
      • Chinese Railway Incident
      • Churches Closed
      • Collectivization
      • Magnetic Mountain
      • Maiakovskii’s Bathhouse
      • Making Central Asia Soviet
      • New Way of Life
      • Proletarian Writers
      • Shock Workers
      • Year of Great Change
    • 1934 down-arrow.svg
      • All Stalin’s Men
      • Birobidzhan
      • The Kirov Affair
      • The Moscow Metro
      • Pavlik Morozov
      • Physical Culture
      • Popular Film Industry
      • Seventeenth Party Congress
      • Socialist Realism
      • Soviet Champagne
      • Writers’ Congress
    • 1936 down-arrow.svg
      • Abolition of Legal Abortion
      • Childhood under Stalin
      • Creation of the Ethnic Republics
      • The Great Terror
      • Pilots and Explorers
      • Popular Front
      • Rebuilding of Moscow
      • Rehabilitation of Cossack Divisions
      • Second Kolkhoz Charter
      • Stalin Constitution
      • Upheaval in the Opera
      • Year of the Stakhanovite
    • 1939 down-arrow.svg
      • Aleksandr Gerasimov
      • All-Union Agricultural Exhibition
      • Cult of Personality
      • Great Fergana Canal
      • Labor Discipline
      • The Lost Census
      • The New Patriotism
      • Soviet Territorial Annexations
      • Tractor Drivers
    • 1943 down-arrow.svg
      • 900 Days
      • Battle of Kursk
      • The Cult of Leadership
      • Deportation of Minorities
      • End of the Comintern
      • Epaulettes Back on Uniforms
      • Holocaust
      • Katyn Forest Massacre
      • Love and Romance in War
      • The Nazi Tide Stops
      • New National Anthem
      • Orthodox Patriarch Appointed
      • Partisans in the Forest
      • The Strange Alliance
      • The Vlasov Movement
      • Wartime Evacuation
      • Women in War Films
    • 1947 down-arrow.svg
      • Cars for Comrades
      • Cold War
      • Cominform and the Soviet Bloc
      • Eight-Hundred Years of Moscow
      • End of Rationing
      • Estonia Sings
      • Famine of 1946-1947
      • The New Curriculum
      • Triumph of T. D. Lysenko
      • Ukraine after the War
      • Veterans Return
      • Xenophobia
      • Year of Laktionov
      • Zhdanov
    • 1954 down-arrow.svg
      • The Gift of Crimea
      • Hydrogen Bomb
      • Prisoners Return
      • Stilyaga
      • Succession to Stalin
      • The Thaw
      • Virgin Lands Campaign
      • What’s a Woman to Think?
    • 1956 down-arrow.svg
      • Akademgorodok
      • The Anti-Party Group
      • Dachas
      • Hungarian Crisis
      • International Youth Festival
      • Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
      • The Kyshtym Explosion
      • Labor Reforms
      • Launch of Sputnik
      • Literary Life at a Crossroads
      • The Palace of Sport
      • Repealing the Ban on Abortion
      • War Films
    • 1961 down-arrow.svg
      • Anti-Parasite Law
      • Bratsk
      • Bulat Okudzhava
      • Corn Campaign
      • Fight Against Superstition
      • First Cosmonaut
      • Khrushchev on the Arts
      • The Khrushchev Slums
      • Moral Code of the Builder of Communism
      • Novocherkassk Massacre
      • Thaw Poets
    • 1968 down-arrow.svg
      • Aeroflot and Pan Am
      • The Chinese Border
      • Crisis in Czechoslovakia
      • The Double Burden
      • Exiled Peoples Return
      • Generation Gap
      • The Limits of Expression
      • The Responsive Economy
      • The Russian Village
      • Third World Friendships
      • Tol’iatti
    • 1973 down-arrow.svg
      • Belarus
      • Détente
      • The Dissident Movement
      • KVN Cancelled
      • The Pessimistic Citizen
      • Rock Goes Russian
      • Seventeen Moments in Spring
      • Shakeup in the Republics
      • Soviet Consumerism
      • Strugatsky Brothers: Science Fiction
      • Vasilii Shukshin
    • 1980 down-arrow.svg
      • BAM
      • Brezhnev’s Cult of Personality
      • Cleaning up Baikal
      • Drawing Together
      • The Dying Russian Village
      • Il’ia Glazunov
      • Invasion of Afghanistan
      • Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears
      • Moscow Olympics
      • Sakharov Exiled
      • Sixth All-Union Census
      • Solidarity in Poland
      • Underground Economy
      • Vladimir Vysotsky
    • 1985 down-arrow.svg
      • The Afghans
      • Anti-Alcohol Campaign
      • Cooperatives
      • Desiccation of the Aral Sea
      • Female Sexuality
      • Gorbachev and Nationalism
      • The Guys from Liubertsy
      • The Leningrad Rock Scene
      • The Lost Movies
      • Meltdown in Chernobyl
      • Perestroika and Glasnost
      • Turbulent Youth
    • 1991 down-arrow.svg
      • Warsaw Pact Dissolves
      • Baltic Independence
      • Eltsin and Russian Sovereignty
      • 500 Days
      • Shevarnadze Resigns
      • Miners’ Strike of 1991
      • March Referendum
      • Nine Plus One Agreement
      • The August Coup
      • Ukrainian Independence
      • The End of the Soviet Union
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