SOVIET UNION ESTABLISHED AS A COMMUNIST STATE
Moscow (JFK+50) On December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established consolidating Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation into a single communist state.
The Soviet Union's creation came as a result of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and a three year civil war in which the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin* struggled to establish a coalition of workers and soldiers committees.
With the establishment of the USSR, Vladimir Lenin became premier and served until his death in 1924. After Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin came to power and the USSR became a Marxist-Leninist state with a centrally planned economy. Nikita Khrushchev followed Stalin in the 1950s as the COLD WAR heated up.
The struggle between the two superpowers culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 in which JFK and Khrushchev reached a mutually accepted solution, thus narrowly averting nuclear war.
*Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) was born in Simbirsk to a Russian schoolmaster. He studied law at Kazan University but was expelled for taking part in student protests. He graduated from St. Petersburg University, passed the bar & began a law practice.
Lenin formed "The Union for the Liberation of the Working Class" in 1895 but was forced to leave Russia for 17 years.
In Switzerland, he established a Bolshevik newspaper titled "PRAVDA" or "TRUTH" & returned to Russia in 1917 to lead the revolution.
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Lenin Speaks in Sverdlov Square
May 5, 1920
Moscow (JFK+50) On December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established consolidating Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation into a single communist state.
The Soviet Union's creation came as a result of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and a three year civil war in which the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin* struggled to establish a coalition of workers and soldiers committees.
With the establishment of the USSR, Vladimir Lenin became premier and served until his death in 1924. After Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin came to power and the USSR became a Marxist-Leninist state with a centrally planned economy. Nikita Khrushchev followed Stalin in the 1950s as the COLD WAR heated up.
The struggle between the two superpowers culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 in which JFK and Khrushchev reached a mutually accepted solution, thus narrowly averting nuclear war.
*Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) was born in Simbirsk to a Russian schoolmaster. He studied law at Kazan University but was expelled for taking part in student protests. He graduated from St. Petersburg University, passed the bar & began a law practice.
Lenin formed "The Union for the Liberation of the Working Class" in 1895 but was forced to leave Russia for 17 years.
In Switzerland, he established a Bolshevik newspaper titled "PRAVDA" or "TRUTH" & returned to Russia in 1917 to lead the revolution.
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Lenin Speaks in Sverdlov Square
May 5, 1920
