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Events relating to russia
The phrase Abstract Expressionism is first used, describing the work of Wassily Kandinsky
Vladimir Tatlin's model for a gigantic Monument to the Third International becomes one of the most significant examples of Constructivism
The civil war ends as the last White army on Russian soil escapes from the Crimea
With massive force, and huge casualties, Lenin puts an end to a naval mutiny at Kronstadt
In a major economic U-turn, Lenin's New Economic Policy allows peasants to hold markets and sell the surplus of their product
Some 50,000 peasants are herded into Russia's first concentration camps
Russian author Maxim Gorky goes abroad for medical treatment and lives for the next seven years in Italy
Lenin creates a powerful new post for Joseph Stalin, as General Secretary of the Communist Party
Lenin has a stroke, removing him for five months from active control of party and state
Marina Tsvetaeva completes an anti-Soviet cycle of poems, The Encampment of the Swans
Germany is the first nation to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Russia
Boris Pasternak makes his name with his third volume of poems, My Sister Life
Stalin devises the structure for a new federal state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Lenin has a second stroke, putting him finally out of action in political terms
At a congress in Moscow four soviet republics (Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Republic) agree to unite
Lenin's third stroke prevents the publication of his Testament, which urges upon the party the removal of Stalin
Maxim Gorky publishes My Universities, completing his autobiographical trilogy
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) officially comes into being, with a newly written constitution
Lenin's death is followed by an intense power struggle in the Kremlin between Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev
The Central Committee of the USSR removes Trotsky from his influential post as War Commissar
The Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein completes his film about the 1905 revolution, The Battleship Potemkin
Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army
19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory
Russian World War I pilot Sergey Ilyushin begins a distinguished career as an aircraft designer
Stalin expels from the Communist party his main opponents, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky
