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Russian leftists overthrew Czar Nicholas, taking him out of the power, beggining with the soviet union

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With help of the Bolsheviks supported by Soviet Russia. This was dissolved in1918

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The red army (Bolshevik) defeated the white army (capitalists, monarchists, socialists). Cheka did mass executions

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Russian people dispatched ukrainians from farm lands to cover up Russia´s needs, the Ukranian language was banned from administrative and educational use.

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The Russia´s red army controlled big part of Ukraine´s territory

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The ukranian SSR was one of the founding members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR

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Ukrainians promoted the use and social status of the Ukrainian language

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Vladimir Lenin died, and Joseph Stalin arised to power

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Stalin encouraged agricultural economy. People were dispatch of their lands and forced to join collective farms. (Kulaks). Agricultural productivity did not increase

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Ukraine experimented food shortages and starvation. 3.9 million people died. Genocide or not?

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Stalin terrorized Soviet citizens. 600,000 people were executed. Other people were in prision or sent to the Gulags

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The Soviet Union expanded its territory. The USSR has an alliance with Great Britain and the USA to defeat the Nazi Germany

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The Soviet Union installed communist governments in the newly liberated Nazi territories. The americans and britished feared the spread of communism

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USA, Canada and Euopean allies formed NATO organization as a force against USSR

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De-Stalinization, Ukrainians critized the Russification and gained more independence

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Mass event to celebrate the brotherly love between Ukrainians and Russians

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This alliance set off the Cold War

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Nikita was left in the tensest years of the cold war, he began as a communist party secretary in 1953

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Nikita sent nuclear weapons to cuba, which is located 90 miles away from Florida´s coast

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He raised living conditions, freed political prisioners, no more artistic censorship, closed The Gulag camps

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Nikita´s actions deteriorated the relations between the Soviet Union

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Brezhnev (Ukrainian leader) had the idea of melting the Soviet nationalities into one Soviet nationality. (Russification policy again). (Promise of communism)

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Gorbachev was left with a Crumbling USSR, so he implemented two reform policies Perstroika (Economy) and Glasnost (Socially)

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Chernobyl, the russification, 95% of industries were owned by the Soviet state, glasnost, younger people, patriocism were factors that led to the opposition of Ukraine

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Ukraine got its independence without interventions or war, 92% of Ukrainians voted for independence of the Soviet Union

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Foreign attacks to the economy, oil´s and gas´ revenue dropped and the USSR lose its hold on Eatern Europe, Gorbanchevs´s reforms did not bear fruit, independence movements across Europe, Gorbanchev resigned, Belovezha accords led to the fall of the USSR