Communism+in+Soviet+Russia

Peter Hong

What led to the rise and downfall of Communism in Soviet Russia?

-Tsar Nicholas II murdered -Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks -Bolsheviks win out -Lenin establishes communism in Soviet Russia -Lenin dies, Stalin takes over -Soviet Union joins League of Nations -Non-Aggression Pact signed -Soviet Union and Germany invade Poland starting WWII -Battle of Stalingrand -German surrender -Germany divided up into 4 zones (USSR take east Germany and east Berlin) -Stalin dies, Khrushchev becomes leader -DeStalinization -Berlin Wall built -Arms race and Cuban Missile Crisis -Khrushchev removed and Kosygin in charge -Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia -Chernobyl Disaster -Overtime Gorbachev in control -Gorbachev led to the fall of communism due to his economic and political reforms, allows Non-Communist parties to form,