• 1917 Revolutions (February 23/March 8)
• Duma convened
• Bread riots and strikes in Petrograd

• Abdication of Nicholai II in favor of GP Mikhail
• GP Mikhail transfers power to Provisional Government under Lvov
• Dual Power (dvoevlastie) begins
• Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies Order No. 1
• Kamenev and Stalin return from Siberia

• Finland Station: Lenin returns to Russia
• Lenin's April Theses

• Miliukov's note to Allies
• Coalition Provisional Government

• Election of Constituent Assembly set for September 30

• Russian offensive against Germans
• Uprising against Provisional Government
• Prince Lvov resigns; Kerensky becomes premier
• 6th Party Congress

• Kerensky becomes dictator
• Constituent Assembly election postponed to November 25

• Kornilov revolt

• October Revolution (October 25/November 7) 
• Patriarchate re-established
• Constituent Assembly elections begin

• Armistice negotiations at Brest-Litovsk December 20
• Establishment of Cheka
• Left SRs enter coalition with Bolsheviks

• About V.I. Lenin [1] [2] [3]

• Constituent Assembly is dissolved

• Separation of church and state
• Russia moves to the Gregorian Calendar (not the Church)

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (KOI8)
• 7th Party Congress
• British land at Murmansk

• Japanese land at Vladivostok

• Committees of the Village Poor established
• Nationalization of industry

• Intervention begins
• Lenin (RFSFR) Constitution ratified

• Murder of Tsar Nicholai II and his family in Ekaterinburg  

• American troops land in Vladivostok

• American troops land at Archangelsk

• End of World War I
• Soviets repudiate Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (copy)
• French troops land at Odessa

• British troops land at Batum

• Founding of the Comintern

• Kolchak launches drive against Bolsheviks
• 8th Party Congress

• French withdraw from Odessa

• Height of Denikin advance
• Treaty of Versailles

• Allies withdraw from Murmansk and Archangel

 1920

• Kolchak shot by Bolsheviks
• Allied blockade lifted

• 9th Party Congress

• Wrangel replaces Denikin

• Wrangel evacuates Crimea
• Civil War ends in Russia

• New Economic Policy (NEP) Begins
• Kronstadt Uprising  
• 10th Party Congress: orders for Purge
• Treaty of Riga with Poland; establishment of Curzon Line

• Cheka replaced by OGPU

• Stalin becomes secretary general
• Treaty of Rapallo with Germany
• 11th Party Congress
• Lenin's first stroke
• The USSR declared

• Lenin begins his Testament

• 12th Party Congress

• Lenin finishes his Testament
• Lenin's second stroke

• Lenin's death (January 21)
• 13th Party Congress
• USSR constitution ratified
• Petrograd renamed 'Leningrad'
• USSR recognized by Great Britain, France, Italy

• 14th Party Congress Trotsky removed as war commissar

• Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev ousted from Politburo

• 15th Party Congress:
• Trotsky, Zinoviev and followers expelled from Party; Stalin takes control
• Communist revolt in China crushed

• About J.V. Stalin

• First Five-Year Plan adopted

• Trotsky deported
• Nikolai Bukharin ousted from Politburo
• Collectivization and industrialization begins 

• 16th Party Congress
• Stalin's "Dizzy with Success" speech

• Ukrainian Famine  

• Dissolution of Russian Association of Proletarian Writers

• Non-Agression Pact with Finland
• Prokofiev returns from abroad
• First mention of "socialist realism"
• Soviet/French non-aggression pact

• USA recognizes USSR
• Ivan Bunin wins Russia's first Nobel Prize in literature

• Second Five-Year Plan

• 17th Party Congress
• Birobidzhan becomes autonomous Jewish state
• First Congress of Russian Writers
• Soviet Union joins League of Nations
• Kirov assassinated; beginning of Stalinist purges 

• Collective farm statute
• Campaign of Stakhanovism begins

• Gorky dies

• Stalin constitution promulgated
• Show trials of Zinoviev, Kamenev, et al. prosecuted by Vishinsky

• Trial of Radek, et al.
• Much of Soviet army command executed

• Stalinshchina (Stalin Terror)

• Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky
• Trial of Bukharin, et al.

• Third Five-Year Plan

• 18th Party Congress
• Minimum labor days set for collective farms
• Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
• World War II: Germans invade Poland
• Soviets take over Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
• Stalin named 'Man of the Year' by TIME
• Soviet attacks on Poland and Finland

• Sholokhov completes Silent Don
• End of war with Finland Baltic states are annexed
• Bessarabia is annexed
• Trotsky is murdered in Mexico

• German Invasion of USSR (June 22)
• Stalin names himself head of government

• Leningrad blockade begins
• Battle for Moscow

• Churchill visits Moscow
• Lend-Lease in full operation
• Stalin named 'Man of the Year' by TIME again

• German surrender at Stalingrad
• Dissolution of the Comintern
• Sergius becomes Patriarch October
• The Moscow Conference
• November Teheran Conference

• Kursk battle
• Forcing of the Dnepr River

• Soviet army frees the right bank of the Ukraine and the whole of Belorussia
• Chasing of the German army across the border of the USSR
• Freeing of Rumania and Poland

• Yalta Conference
• Budapest, Vienna and Prague taken by Russian troops
• Berlin surrenders. Elba meeting.
• Potsdam Conference 

• Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part I, wins Stalin Prize
• First elections to the Supreme Soviet since 1937
• Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" Speech at Westminster College [Listen to it]
• Zhdanov attacks Zoshchenko and Soviet composers
• Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part II, withdrawn from theaters
• First session of the UN opens
• Communist government in Bulgaria

• Fourth Five-Year Plan

• Rationing abolished
• Cominform established

• Czechoslovakia joins Soviet bloc

• Berlin blockade
• Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform

• USSR tests atomic bomb

• USSR and China sign alliance treaty

• Fifth Five-Year Plan

• 19th Party Congress

• Death of Stalin
• Malenkov, premier; Khrushchev, first secretary
• Beria executed

• Ehrenburg's The Thaw initiates 'The Thaw'
• Crimea transferred to Ukraine

• Khrushchev's 'Virgin Land' program

• Malenkov replaced by Bulganin
• Summit Conference in Geneva
• Warsaw Pact established

• 20th Party Congress
• Khrushchev's "Secret Speech"; Lenin's Testament read
• Party condemns "cult of the individual"    November
• Hungarian revolution quashed
• Molotov resigns

• Malenkov, Kaganovich and Molotov ousted
• Decentralization of economic organization
• First Sputnik launched
• USSR successfully tests ICBM

• Bulganin resigns
• US-USSR cultural exchange agreement
• US edition of Doctor Zhivago
• Boris Pasternak awarded Nobel Prize for literature