Timeline - 1920s

1920

• Peasants rebellion

1921

• March - Civil War ends
• War communism abandoned
• Economic meltdown and famine
• NEP introduced
• Ban on factions

1922

• Creation of the USSR
• Cheka replaced by GPU

1923

• Nomeklatura
• Truumvirate - Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin

1924

• Death of Lenin
• Power vacuum - everyone fighting for power

1925

• Duumvirate

1928

• First five year plan (lasts 4 years)

1929

• Mass collectivisation - liquidation of the Kulaks
• End of NEP
• Stalin gives speech - says it is the beginning of Stalin's Russia - criticizes Lenin