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The Russian Revolution (1991) online . Pipes, Richard. A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (1996), abridged version online ; Remington, Thomas. Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia. (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1984). Service, Robert. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. 2nd ed. Harvard UP, 1999. online ; Service, Robert, Lenin: A ...
Most of the top communist leaders in the 1920s and 1930s had been propagandists or editors before 1917, and were keenly aware of the importance of propaganda. As soon as they gained power in 1917 they seized the monopoly of all communication media, and greatly expanded their propaganda apparatus in terms of newspapers, magazines and pamphlets.
Russian State: 1918–1920 ... This is a timeline of Russian history, ... 1930: 15 April: The Gulag was officially established. 20 July:
[46] [47] Social upheaval continued in the mid-1930s. Despite the turmoil of the mid-to-late 1930s, the country developed a robust industrial economy in the years preceding World War II. Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria with Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, on his lap. As head of the NKVD, Beria was responsible for many political repressions in the ...
Between 1920 and 1922 about 10,000 Russian-Americans who had earlier emigrated to the United States made their way back to the Soviet Union, either voluntarily or through deportation by American authorities. Most were unskilled laborers who returned to the countryside to work in agriculture.
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps.
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences writes that the term "cultural revolution" in Russia appeared in the "Anarchism Manifesto" of the Gordin brothers in May 1917, and was introduced into the Soviet political language by Vladimir Lenin in 1923 in the paper "On Cooperation": "This cultural revolution would now suffice to make our country a completely socialist country; but it ...
In 1920, the newly formed state of Poland expanded eastwards into the former Russian territories of Ukraine and Belarus. The Red Army retaliated and invaded Poland, but was defeated outside Warsaw in August 1920. Shortly afterwards, the Russian SFSR sued for peace, which was signed at the Peace of Riga on 18 March 1921.