1940 ⟶ Chechen Insurgency Against the Soviet Union Begins
January: Chechen insurgency begins in Soviet Union.
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👑 Stalin Consolidates Dictatorial Power in the Soviet Union
November 12: Soviet general secretary Joseph Stalin becomes dictator of the Soviet Union.⟶
DictatorshipCommunismTotalitarianismSoviet UnionStalinismPolitical PowerJoseph StalinAuthoritarianismCold War
Soviet Union⚔️ Chechen Insurgency Against the Soviet Union Begins
January: Chechen insurgency begins in Soviet Union.⟶
InsurgencySoviet UnionResistanceGuerrilla WarfareWorld War IIArmed Conflict
Soviet Union🏚️ German Siege of Leningrad Begins
September 8: Siege of Leningrad begins.⟶
World War IIEastern FrontSiegeMilitary HistorySoviet UnionAxis PowersTotal WarAtrocities
Soviet Union💣 Soviet Union Conducts First Nuclear Weapons Test
Soviet Union tests an atomic bomb.⟶
Cold WarNuclear Arms RaceWeapons of Mass DestructionSoviet UnionNuclear ProliferationAtomic BombMilitary HistoryGeopoliticsEspionage
Soviet Union🇷🇺 Khrushchev Consolidates Power in the Soviet Union
After winning the power struggle that followed Stalin's death two years earlier, Nikita Khrushchev assumes control of the Soviet Union.⟶
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Soviet Union🔨 Perestroika Reforms Begin in the Soviet Union
January 2: Beginning of the perestroika ("restructuring"), a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s associated with Gorbachev and his glasnost ("openness") policy reform.⟶
Soviet UnionPerestroikaGlasnostCold WarMikhail GorbachevCommunismPolitical Reform
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