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| 1921 |
| | | In a major economic U-turn, Lenin's New Economic Policy allows peasants to hold markets and sell the surplus of their product | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lenin creates a powerful new post for Joseph Stalin, as General Secretary of the Communist Party | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lenin has a stroke, removing him for five months from active control of party and state | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Stalin devises the structure for a new federal state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lenin has a second stroke, putting him finally out of action in political terms | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Lenin's third stroke prevents the publication of his Testament, which urges upon the party the removal of Stalin | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Germany's communists organise uprisings in Saxony, Thuringia and Hamburg | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) officially comes into being, with a newly written constitution | |
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| 1924 |
| | | Lenin's death is followed by an intense power struggle in the Kremlin between Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev | |
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