1927 ⟶ Stalin Consolidates Dictatorial Power in the Soviet Union
November 12: Soviet general secretary Joseph Stalin becomes ...
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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✈️ Trotsky Exiled from the Soviet Union
February: Leon Trotsky is exiled.⟶
Soviet UnionCommunismPolitical PurgesExileLeon TrotskyJoseph StalinRussian RevolutionTotalitarianismCold War
Soviet Union🔪 Stalin's Great Purge Begins
Great Purge begins under Stalin.⟶
StalinSoviet UnionPurgesPolitical RepressionCommunismTotalitarianismGulag
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.⟶
Cold WarSoviet UnionNikita KhrushchevPower StruggleCommunismUSSR
Soviet Union🇷🇺 Gorbachev Ascends to Soviet Leadership
Cold WarSoviet UnionCommunismMikhail GorbachevPerestroikaGlasnostPolitical Transition
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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