Labels:text | font | paper | publication | document OCR: MARCH 8, 1917 First demonstrations against shortages of bread in Petrograd MARCH 14, 1917 Soviets issue Order No. 1, taking authority from army officers MARCH 16, 1917 Czar Nicholas Il abdicates, provisional government assumes power APRIL 16, 1917 Lenin returns from exile, addresses Bolsheviks JULY 16-18, 1917 July Days' Bolshevik uprising calls for fall of provisional government OCTOBER 23, 1917 Bolsheviks endorse Lenin's policy of armed insurrection NOVEMBER 7, 1917 Winter Palace taken as Bolsheviks overthrow provisional regime NOVEMBER 8, 1917 Lenin announces "the new socialist order" JANUARY 28, 1918 Red Army established under Trotsky's leadership FEBRUARY 2, 1918 Church lands taken and placed under state control MARCH 3, 1918 Armistice signed at Brest- Litovsk - Baltic states pass to Germany MARCH 12, 1918 Soviet capital moves to Moscow from Petrograd SEPTEMBER 3, 1918 Red Terror introduced to crush all opposition DECEMBER 30, 1921 U.S.S.R. officially created after victory in civil war JANUARY 1, 1922 Nearly 33 million Soviets threatened with starvation JANUARY 21, 1924 Lenin dies after three strokes in nine months OCTOBER 1, 1928 Stalin's first five-year plan comes into effect JANUARY 30, 1929 Trotsky ordered out of the country by Stalin NOVEMBER 1, 1934 12,000 exiled to Siberia as "enemies of the state" AUGUST 25, 1936 Stalin's former allies Zinoviev and Kamenev executed with 14 others for "treason" AUGUST 23, 1939 Stalin signs nonaggression treaty with Germany AUGUST 21, 1940 Trotsky is assassinated in exile in Mexico City
