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(March) Eleventh Party Congress meets.
(April) Stalin assumes the Communist Party post
of general secretary.
(April) Russia signs Treaty of Rapallo with Ger-
many.
(May) Lenin suffers first stroke.
(October) Japan evacuates Vladivostok.
(December) Lenin suffers second stroke.
Formation of the Soviet Union.
New Russian Family Code makes it easier to
obtain divorce.
Treaty of Berlin between USSR and Germany.
1927
New Soviet Criminal Code enacted.
(April) Chiang Kai-shek crushes Communist
revolt; Soviet Union breaks diplomatic rela-
tions with China.
(May) Britain breaks diplomatic relations with
Soviet Union; war scare in USSR.
(December) Fifteenth Party Congress; Trotsky
expelled from Party.
1923
Lenin suffers third stroke. Comintern encour-
ages uprising by German Communists.
(January) Lenin completes his “Testament,”
assessing strengths and weaknesses of five
possible successors: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kame-
nev, Bukharin, and Stalin.
Twelfth Party Congress.
1928
(January) First “emergency” grain confiscations
from peasants.
(Fall) Crisis in food deliveries.
(October) First Five-Year Plan formulated;
scheduled to run through 1933.
Trotsky exiled to Kazakhstan.
Shakhty trial of alleged industrial saboteurs.
1924
(January) Lenin dies.
USSR constitution approved.
(February) USSR officially recognized by Great
Britain.
(October) Diplomatic relations with France
established.
“Zinoviev letter” harms British-Soviet relations.
Thirteenth Party Congress.
Petrograd renamed Leningrad.
Bukhara and Khiva, people's republics since
1920, are incorporated into Soviet Union.
1929
Trotsky expelled from Soviet Union.
USSR and Great Britain resume diplomatic rela-
tions.
Mikhail Sholokhov publishes Quiet Flows the Don.
(November) Party bureaucracy moves against
Right Opposition and removes Bukharin from
Politburo.
Beginning of forced collectivization of peasant
households.
(December) Stalin authorizes liquidation of
kulaks.
1925
Soviet Congress ratifies Soviet constitution.
Soviet Union and Germany sign commercial
treaty.
Defensive alliance with Turkey.
Fourteenth Party Congress; Trotsky dismissed as
war commissar.
1929-1932
First Five-Year Plan inaugurates period of rapid
industrialization. After four years govern-
ment decides that quotas have been met.
1926
Census establishes population of Soviet Union at
147 million.
Zinoviev and Kamenev form a leftist alliance
with Trotsky; all three are dismissed from
Politburo.
1930
Trial of alleged conspirators known as the Indus-
trial Party.
Sixteenth Party Congress.
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