Russian Timeline
The following books were reviewed to gather this data all into one listing;
Homesteaders on the Steppe, The Odyssey of a Pioneering People, by Joseph S Height
Paradise on the Steppe, The Odyssey of a Pioneering People, by Joseph S Height
The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862 by Karl Stumpp
from Catherine to Khrushchev, The Story of Russia's Germans, by Adam Giesinger
History of Russia, 6th edition by Walther Kirchner (Barnes and Noble Books - 1976)
If you should find yourself using a significant portion of this data in your work, it is recommended that you give credit for the list to the those works cited above.
Copyright 1996 - DLW
May be freely used for non-profit purposes.
YEAR EVENT
ca. 550 Avars in Russia.
ca. 620 Origins of Khazar State.
ca. 700 Northmen in Volga Region.
ca. 855-885 Cyril and Methodius convert Slavic tribes.
862 Rurik, ruler of Novgorod.
907 Oleg's expedition against Constantinople.
967-971 Sviatoslav's expedition against Byzantine Empire.
988 Christianity adopted by Vladimir I.
1015 Death of Vladimir I.
10l7 Church of St. Sophia begun in Kiev.
1019-1054 Reign of Yaroslav the Wise.
1037 Kiev becomes metropolitan see.
1043 Last expedition against Byzantium.
1054 Catholic-Orthodox schism.
1113-1125 Reign of Vladimir II.
1139-1174 Reign of Andrew Bogolubsky.
ca. 1147 Founding of Moscow.
1223 ? Battle of the River Kalka.
1236 Second Tartar invasion.
1240 Battle of the Neva: defeat of Swedes.
1240 Kiev taken by Tartars.
1242 Battle of Lake Peipus: defeat of Teutonic Knights.
1252-1263 Reign of Alexander Nevsky in Muscovy.
1320 Kiev falls under Lithuanian Rule.
1325-1341 Reign of Ivan I Kalita.
1325 Moscow becomes metropolitan see.
1359-1389 Reign of Dimitri Donskoy.
1380 Battle of the Don.
fl. 1400 Andrew Rublev.
1408 Re-establishment of Tartar rule over Russia.
1438-1439 Council of Ferrara-Florence: attempts to unify Catholics and Orthodox.
1462-1505 Reign of Ivan III the Great.
1471 -1494 Conquest of Novgorod and its destruction as trading center.
1480 Battle of the Oka River: end of Tartar rule.
1485 Incorporation of Tver.
1505 -1533 Reign of Basil III.
1510 Conquest of Pskov.
1514 Conquest of Smolensk.
1533-1584 Reign of Ivan IV the Terrible.
1552 Conquest of Kazan.
1553 Discovery of North Cape route to Russia,
1554-1556 Conquest of Astrakhan.
1558 Beginning of Livonian War.
1565 Oprichnina founded.
1581 Yermak's first expedition into Siberia.
1582 Peace of Yam Zapolie.
1584-1598 Reign of Feodor I, last Tsar of Rurik family.
1589 Moscow becomes a patriarchate.
1595 Establishment of "Uniate church" in Ukraine.
1598-1605 Reign of Boris Godunov.
1604 Appearance of "False Dimitri." Beginning of Time of Troubles.
1604-1608 Cossack revolts in Ukraine against Poland.
1605-1606 Dimitri as Tsar.
1606-1610 Reign of Basil IV Shuisky.
1608 Appearance of "Second False Dimitri."
1611-1612 The Poles in Moscow.
1613 Election of Romanov family to the throne.
1613-1645 Reign of Michael I.
1618 Russians reach upper Yenisei River in Siberia.
1619-1633 Philaret, Patriarch of Moscow.
1625-1649 New Cossack revolts in Ukraine against Poland.
1632 Russians reach Lena River in Siberia.
1637 A "Siberian Department" established in Moscow.
1645 Russians reach Pacific Coast of Siberia.
1645-1676 Reign of Alexis I.
1649 Publication of new Russian law code.
1652 Nikon becomes Patriarch of Moscow.
1653 Convening of last Zemsky Sobor.
1654-1656 Church council in Moscow for sake of reform: beginning of the Schism.
1661 Peace of Cardis with Sweden.
1667-1671 Revolt of Stenka Razin.
1676-1682 Reign of Feodor II.
1682-1725 Reign of Peter I the Great.
1682-1689 Regency of Sophia.
1689 Russo-Chinese Treaty of Nerchinsk.
1689 Peter seizes government.
1696 Capture of Azov.
1697 Kamchatka reached by Russian explorers.
1697-1698 Peter's trip through Europe; suppression of Streltsi.
1700 New calendar introduced.
1700-1721 Great Northern War.
1700 Defeat at Narva.
1703 Founding of St. Petersburg.
1709 Battle of Poltava.
1710-1711 Russo-Turkish War: loss of Azov.
1713 St. Petersburg becomes capital of Russia.
1716 Invasion of southern Sweden.
1718 Death of Alexis, son of Peter.
1721 Peace of Nystad.
1721 Patriarchate abolished in Moscow; Holy Synod established.
1722-1723 War against Persia.
1725 Academy of Science founded in St. Petersburg.
1725-1727 Reign of Catherine I.
1727 Russo-Chinese Treaty of Kyakhta.
1727-1730 Reign of Peter II.
1730-1740 Reign of Anna I.
1731 Ladoga Canal completed.
1733-1735 War of Polish Succession (Stanislaw Leszcynski).
1737 Charting of northern Siberian coast line.
1738 Russian ballet school founded.
1738-1739 War with Turkey.
1739 Treaty of Belgrade: coast on Black Sea gained.
1740-1741 Reign of Ivan VI; regency of Anna Leopoldovna.
1741-1762 Reign of Elizabeth.
1741 Discovery of Bering Straits.
1743 0stermann exiled.
1743 Peace of Abo: Sweden cedes Viborg.
1755 Moscow University founded.
1755 Lomonosov, Russian Grammar.
1757-1762 Russian participation in Seven Years' War.
1758 Academy of Fine Arts founded.
1761 Abrogation of the Colonist Status
1762 Reign of Peter III.
1762 Nobility freed from compulsory service.
1762-1796 Reign of Catherine II the Great.
1763 Catherie’s Manifesto
1763-1768 Emigration into Volga area from Hesse, Rhineland, the Palatinate, Saxony, Wuerttemberg, Switzerland, etc.
1764 Secularization of church lands and property.
1765 Death of Lomonosov.
1765 Emigration to Riebensdorf from Sulzfeld Wuerttemberg.
1766 Emigration to near Petersburg from Hesse, Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg.
1766 Emigration to Belowesh from Hesse.
1767-1774 Commission for the Study of Reforms.
1768 Outbreak of war with Turkey.
1772 First Partition of Poland. The Polish province of Volhynia is taken over by Russia.
1772-1774 Pugachev Revolt.
1774 Treaty of Kuchuk Kainardji.
1775 End of Cossack autonomy in the Ukraine.
1780 Armed Neutrality against England during American Revolution.
1780 Emigration to Josefstal, Fischerdorf, Jamburg near the Dnieper from Prussia, Wuerttemberg, Bavaria.
1782 Emigration to Alt Schwendendorf from island Hiiumaa off Estonia.
1783 Annexation of Crimea.
1783 First German settlement in Volhynia at Koretz.
1785 Charter for Russian nobility and merchants.
1786 Emigration to Alt Danzig from Prussia.
1787-1790 Russo-Swedish War.
1787-1792 Russo-Turkish War: campaigns of Suvorov.
1789-1790 Emigration to Chortitza (Mennonites) from Danzig, West Prussia.
1792 Treaty of Jassy.
1793 Second Partition of Poland.
1793 Mennonites from West Prussia settle in the region of Ostrog.
1795 Third Partition of Poland.
1796 Odessa founded.
1796-1801 Reign of Paul I.
1799 Suvorov's Italian and Swiss campaigns (War of Second Coalition ) .
1801 Russian suzerainty formally recognized by Georgia.
1801-1825 Reign of Alexander I.
1802 Philharmonic Society founded.
1803 Expedition around world.
1803 Czar appoints Richelieu governor of Odessa. Arrival of 2,990 immigrants.
1803 Alexander publishes Rescript on the colonization of "New Russia".
1803 Kanenius becomes president of the Colonist Welfare Office.
1803-1807 Napoleon liberates the central region of Poland from Russia and calls it the Duchy of Warsaw.
1804-1806 Grossliebental colonies founded.
1804-1806 Emigration to Franzfeld, Mariental, Josefstal by Odessa from Alsace, the Palatinate, Baden.
1804-1806 Emigration to Halbstadt, Molotschna (Mennonites) from Danzig, West Prussia.
1804-1806 Emigratoin to Prischib, Molotschna from Wuerttemberg, Baden, Hesse.
1804-1806 Emigration to Crimea (Neusatz, Zuerichtal) from Wuerrtemberg, Switzerland.
1805 Defeat at Austerlitz.
1805 Richelieu appointed governor of New Russia.
1806 Outbreak of war with Turkey.
1807 Defeat at Friedland.
1807 Treaty of Tilsit: alliance with France.
1807-1909 War of Coalition against France.
1808 Congress of Erfurt.
1808-1809 Russo-Swedish war.
1808-1809 Constitutional reforms proposed by Speransky.
1808-1810 Glueckstal colonies founded.
1808-1810 Emigration to Kutschurgan District from Alsace, Baden, Poland.
1808-1810 Emigration to Bersean District from Alsace, Baden, Palatinate, Wuerttemberg.
1809 Treaty of Frederikshavn with Sweden: acquisition of Finland.
1809 Opening of official relations with United States.
1811 The first census of the colonists.
1812 Peace with Turkey at Bucharest: acquisition of Bessarabia.
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
1812 Odessa plague kills 2,656 people.
1812-1827 Emigration to Prischib, Molotschna from Wuerttemberg, Baden, Hesse.
1813 Battle of the Nations at Leipzig.
1813 Persia cedes Baku; incorporation of Georgia.
1814 Occupation of Paris.
1814 Richelieu returns to Paris; is succeeded by Count Langeron
1814-1816 Emigration to Bessarabia, Colonies near Odessa from Wuerttemberg, Prussia, Poland, Bavaria.
1815 Congress of Vienna; Holy Alliance founded.
1815 Russia conquers Duchy of Warsaw.
1815 Napoleon is defeated. The Congress of Vienna creates the semi autonomous state of Congress Poland under Russian rule.
1815-1820 The "golden years" of colonist prosperity.
1816-1819 Emancipation of peasants in Baltic provinces.
1817 1,360 Wuerttemberg families arrive at Ismail. 1,300 people perish in quarantine camps.
1817-1818 Emigration to South Caucasus from Wuerttemberg.
1818 Constitution for Poland.
1818 Colonist Welfare Committe established. Inspectorates introduced in the colonies.
1818-1845 President of the Welfare Committee - General Ivan Insov.
1819 Colony of Hoffnungstal (Odessa) founded.
1820 The Jesuits expelled from Russia.
1821-1834 Emigration to Bessarabia, Colonies near Odessa from Wuerttemberg, Prussia, Poland, Bavaria.
1822 Congress of Verona.
1822 Langeron returns to Paris. Vorontzov becomes governor. Richelieu dies.
1822-1831 Emigration to Swabian colonies near Berdjansk from Wuerttemberg.
1823-1842 Emigration to Granau area (Planer colonies) from Danzig, West Prussia, Rhine-Hesse, Baden.
1825 Alexander visits South Russia - dies in the Crimea. Nicholas I becomes Czar.
1825-1855 Reign of Nicholas I.
1825-1829 Good crops in the colonies. Building of new homes.
1825 Dekabrist Rising.
1826-1828 War against Persia; expansion in Caucasus region
1826 Death of Karamzin.
1827 Battle of Navarino.
1828 Outbreak of war with Turkey.
1829 Peace of Adrianople.
1829 Platzer's plan to establish Central (secondary) schools.
1830-1832 Revolution in Poland.
1831 The first major Polisch uprising causes many Germans to flee from Congress Poland to work for Polish landlords in Volhynia, and to new settlements in South Russia and Bessarabia.
1832 First commercial treaty with United States.
1833 The Black Year: no rain, no crops; famine and food relief.
1833 Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi.
1835 Colonial affairs under the Ministry of Imperial Domains.
1837 Death of Pushkin.
1839 Russian silver currency extablished.
1842 First Central schools established.
1845 Czar Nicholas I visits Pope Gregory XVI.
1845-1848 Councilor Hahn president of the Welfare Committee.
1846-1848 Years of colonist prosperity.
1848 Councilor Hahn directs writing of 1848 village histories.
1848 Colonist Codex established.
1848 Death of Belinsky.
1848-1853 President of the Welfare Committee - Baron von Rosen
1849 Suppression of Hungarian revolution.
1849 Johann Ludwig Bette, 28, of Johannestal/Odessa, with a small party emigrates to USA, and settles in Ohio.
1850 Helanus Kahn becomes the first bishop of Tiraspol diocese.
1851 St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad opened.
1853 Occupation of Sakhalin and Korea.
1853 Emigration to Samara (Mennonites) from Danzig, West Prussia.
1853-1856 President of the Welfare Committee - Baron von Mestmacher
1854-1856 Crimean War. (1853-1856?)
1855-1881 Reign of Alexander II.
1855 Fall of Sevastopol.
1855 Cholera epidemic.
1856 Peace of Paris.
1856 Death of Glinka.
1856-1858 President of the Welfare Committee - Islawin
1857 Catholic weminary established in Saratov.
1857-1867 Herzen, The Bell.
1858-1866 President of the Welfare Committee - Alexander von Hamm
1859-1862 Emigration to Samara (Mennonites) from Danzig, West Prussia.
1860 Founding of Vladivostok; Treaty of Peking.
1861 Emancipation of serfs. Land distribution. Redemption payments.
1862 Financial reform.
1862 Unterhaltungsblatt published. (the first German paper)
1862 US Homestead Act.
1863 Educational reform. (Prohibition of corporal punishement for school children.)
1863 Secession from Academy of Fine Arts.
1863 The last major Polish uprising is put down by the Russians. Germans now begin to flood into Volhynia by the thousands.
1863-1864 Revolt in Poland.
1864 Judicial reform; introduction of Zemstvos. (The Zemstvo local self-government.)
1864 Bishop Kahn dies. Lipski becomes administrator.
1865 Capture of Tashkent.
1865 Corporal punishement of women abolished.
1866 Attempted assassination of Alexander II.
1866-1867 President of the Welfare Committee - Th. Lysander
1867 Reduction of protective tariffs.
1867 Sale of Alaska to United States.
1867-1871 President of the Welfare Committee - Vladimir von Oettingen
1868 Capture of Samarkand.
1869 Karl Marx, Das Kapital (Vol. I).
1869 Central School established in Grossliebental.
1870 Abrogation of Black Sea clauses of Treaty of Paris.
1870 Municipal reform.
1870 Mennonites begin their migration from Volynia to the Americas.
1871 The Colonist Codex is abrogated. Privileges of colonists granted by Catherine and Alexander repealed.
1872 The first German colonists migrate to USA. (see 1849 - led by Johann Ludwig Bette)
1872 Three Emperors’ League (Germany, Austria, Russia).
1873 Conquest of Khiva.
1873 55 families from Rohrbach/Worms emigrate to the Sutton NE area.
1874 Introtuction of universal military service.
1874 Colonists subject to army service.
1875 Southern Sakhalin ceded to Japan; western Kuril Islands acquired.
1875 1876—New uprisings in Balkans.
1876 Death of Bakunin.
1876 Annexation of Kokand.
1877 Colonist Welfare Committee abolished.
1877 Reintroduction of protective tariffs.
1877-1878 War against Turkey.
1878 Treaty of San Stephano.
1878 Congress of Berlin.
1878-1881 Terrorist activities.
1878-1881 Populist movement.
1880 Abolation of the salt tax.
1881 Assassination of Alexander II.
1881 Death of Mussorgsky.
1881 Death of Dostoyevsky.
1881 German schools under Ministry of Public Enlightment.
1881-1894 Reign of Alexander III.
1882 Famine in Russia
1882-1886 Payments and burtens of emancipated serfs reduced.
1882-1890 Social legislation (child labor, working hours, factory inspection).
1883 Antonius Zerr becomes bishop of Tiraspol. Increase of colonist priests.
1884 Merv taken.
1885 Revolution in Bulgaria.
1887 Reinsurance Treaty with Germany.
1890 Anti-Jewish legislation enforced.
1890-1914 Other Germans migrate from Volhynia to the Americas by the thousands.
1891-1892 Franco-Russian alliance: French loans for Russia.
1891-1903 Trans-Siberian railroad constructed.
1892 Famine in Russia.
1893 German colonies receive Russian names.
1894-1917 Reign of Nicholas II.
1896 Treaty with China regarding trans-Siberian railroad in Manchuria.
1896-1897 Strike movement.
1898 Social Democratic party founded.
1898 Port Arthur leased.
1899 Hague Peace Conference.
1899 Finnish legislature abolished.
1900 Boxer Rebellion.
1901 Russo-Persian treaty.
1902 Bishop Zerr resigns. Baron van Ropp, fourth bishop of Tiraspol.
1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
1903 Menshevist-Bolshevist split in Social Democratic party.
1903 Abolition of joint-tax liability of peasants.
1903 Pogroms in Kishinev, Gomel.
1904 Joseph Kessler, Volga German, becomes 5th bishop of Tiraspol.
1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.
1904 Assassination of Plehwe.
1905 Fall of Port Arthur; naval Battle of Tsushima.
1905 Demonstration under Father Gapon: Bloody Sunday.
1905 Peace of Portsmouth.
1905 Meeting of Tsar Nicholas with Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany.
1905 October Revolution.
1906 First Duma.
1906 Stolypin's agrarian reform; dissolution of mfr.
1907 Central School established in Landau
1907 Second Duma.
1907 Second Hague Peace Conference.
1907 Anglo-Russian convention: foundation for Triple Entente.
1907 Russo-Japanese convention.
1907-1912 Third Duma.
1908 Convention with Austria at Buchlau.
1908 Progymnasium established in Landau by Fr. Scherr.
1910 Potsdam agreement with Germany regarding Bagdad railroad.
1910 Russo-Japanese treaty.
1910 Death of Tolstoy.
1912-1917 Fourth Duma.
1914 Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo.
1914-1918 World War I.
1914 Defeat at Tannenberg.
1915 Defeat in Galicia.
1915 Fall of Warsaw.
1916 Brusilov offensive.
1916 Assassination of Rasputin.
1917 February Revolution; abdication of Nicholas II; Provisional Government.
1917 Kerensky offensive.
1917 Chruch property confiscated.
1917 July uprising of Soviets.
1917 Russia becomes a republic; renewal of patriarchate.
1917 Bolshevist October Revolution (Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin); Kerensky government overthrown. ("Bolshevik Coup")
1917 Armistice with Central Powers.
1918 Adapted Gregorian Calender (Feb 1 became Feb 14)
1918 Constituent Assembly dispersed.
1918 Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty with Central Powers.
1918 Outbreak of civil war; Allied intervention in Russia begins.
1918 Red Army created.
1918 Death of Nicholas II.
1918 First Soviet Constitution (Fundamental Law); creation of Federation of Soviet National Republics.
1918 End of World War I; revolution in Germany.
1919 Treaty of Versailles; League of Nations founded.
1919 Third International (Comintern) established.
1919 Foreign trade monopoly established.
1919 Enforced requistioning of grain. The Red massacre in Selz.
1920 The closing of the seminary. Bishop Kessler leaves Russia.
1920 Recognition of Soviets by Estonia.
1920 End of Allied intervention.
1920 End of civil war; death of Kolchak; withdrawal of Denikin and Wrangel.
1920 Treaty of Wesphalia splits Poland into two. The west half, Rowno region, goes to Poland. The east half, Zhitomir region, stays part of Russia.
1920-1921 War against Poland.
1920-1922 Famine in Russia (250,000-300,000 starve to death).
1921 Peace of Riga; cession of White Russian lands to Poland.
1921 Institution of N.E.P.
1921 Lenin's "New Economic Policy".
1921 Friendship treaties with Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan.
1922 Conference at Genoa; Treaty of Rapallo with Germany.
1922 End of Far Eastern Republic.
1922 Arrest of Patriarch Tikhon; dissolution of Synot.
1922 Stalin becomes secretary of Communist party.
1922 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) created.
1923 Revised Fundamental Law published.
1923 The Soviet registration of all churches.
1924 Death of Lenin.
1924 Treaty with China.
1924 Recognition of U.S.S.R. by England, Italy, France.
1924 Incident of Zinoviev letter.
1924 Trotsky stripped of power.
1924 Stalin becomes supreme dictator.
1925 Recognition of U.S.S.R. by Japan.
1925 Fourteenth Party congress: announcement of industrialization plan.
1926 Trotsky expelled from Politburo.
1927 Raid on Soviet trade headquarters in London; relations with England broken.
1927 Tenth Jubilee of Revolution.
1928 First Five-Year Plan inaugurated.
1928 Millions sent to the slave labor camps.
1928 Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact.
1928-1929 Stalin's collectivization and liquidation of the kulaks.
1929 East Protocol signed.
1929 Resumption of relations with England.
1929 Trotsky expelled from U.S.S.R.
1929 Bishop Frison appointed adminstrator of the Crimea.
1929 Raid on Soviet consulate in Harbin; Treaty of Nikolsk Ussuriisk.
1929-1931 Deportation of priests and intellectuals.
1930 Turksib railroad opened.
1930 Liquidation of kulaks.
1931 Trial of Industrialist party.
1932 Dnieprostroy Dam opened.
1932 Bishop Zerr dies in Kandel.
1932-1933 Second Russian famine.
1932-1937 Second Five-Year Plan.
1933 Bishop Kessler dies in a monastery in Prussia.
1933 Recognition of U.S.S.R. by United States.
1934 Russia joins League of Nations.
1934 Sham trials of the priests in Landau.
1934-1938 Party purges: execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Rykov, Tukhachevsky.
1935 Sale of Chinese Eastern railway.
1935 Franco-Russian alliance.
1936 Stakhanov Year.
1936 Stalin Constitution: revision of Fundamental Law.
1936 Death of Gorky.
1937 Bishop Frison executed in a Crimean prison.
1938 Third Five-Year Plan started.
1939 Collapse of English and French military negotiations with U.S.S.R.
1939 Nonaggression pact with Germany.
1939 Outbreak of World War II.
1939 Annexation of eastern Poland.
1939 Mutual assistance pacts with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
1939-1940 War against Finland.
1939 Expulsion of U.S.S.R. from League of Nations.
1940 Incorporation of Baltic republics into U.S.S.R.
1941 Stalin becomes Premier.
1941 Russo-Japanese neutrality pact.
1941 Nazis invade Russia. Deportation of Volga colonists to Siberia.
1941 U.S.S.R. accepts Atlantic Charter.
1942 United Nations Declaration signed.
1942 Siege of Moscow raised.
1942 Fall of Sevastopol.
1942 Twenty-year alliance with Great Britain.
1943 Re-establishment of patriarchate.
1943 Churches in Odessa Region reopened.
1943 Biship Glaser appointed administrator of Transnistria.
1943 Siege of Stalingrad raised.
1943 Anglo-Russian-United States conference in Moscow.
1943 Teheran Conference.
1941 Siege of Leningrad raised.
1941 Bretton Woods Conference.
1944 Alliance with France.
1944 Retreat of the Wehrmacht. Flight of 350,000 colonists to the West.
1944 Armistice with Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland.
1945 Yalta Conference (United States, England, Russia).
1945 San Francisco Conference.
1945 Berlin taken.
1945 Soviets deport 250,000 German refugees to Siberia, 80,000-100,000 escape to Germany.
1945 Potsdam Conference.
1945 Russian declaration of war against Japan.
1945 Surrender of Japan: end of World War II.
1945 Volhynia becomes part of Ukraine.
1946 Discord in United Nations over Iran and Greece.
1946 Proposals in United Nations for atomic energy contro1.
1947 Peace treaties signed with Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary.
1947 Currency reform.
1948 Establishment of a communistic government in Czechoslovakia.
1948-1949 Berlin blockade.
1949 Excommunication of Communists by the Pope.
1949 Defeat of Nationalist China by the Chinese Communists.
1949-1955 Interruption of political relations with Yugoslavia.
1950 Bishop Glaser dies in a Communist prison in Rumania.
1951 Fifth Five-Year Plan initiated.
1952 General Party Congress.
1953 Death of Stalin; Malenkov becomes Premier.
1955 Malenkov resigns; Rise of Khrushchev.
1955 Conclusion of Austrian Peace Treaty.
1957 Launching of sputnik.
1958 Khrushchev becomes Premicr.
1960 Failure of Geneva and Disarmament conferences.
1961 Currency Reform.
1961 Launching of man into orbit in space.
1961-1962 Berlin Crisis.
1962 Cuba crisis.
1963 Widening gulf between Russia and China.
1963 Atomic Test Ban negotiatet.
1964 Kruschchev grants amnesty, without reparations, to the deported German Russians in the slave labor camps.
1964 Ouster of Khrushchev
1968 Soviets invade Czechoslovakia.
1971 New Five-Year Plan. Increased decentralization.
1971 Berlin Agreement with Western powers.
1972 Treaty with West Germany.
1972 U.S. President visits Moscow.
1974 End of Vietnam War.
1974-1977 2,000,000 Soviet Germans in USSR.