Historical Organization
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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Organization Timeline
The Soviet government signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
📅 3 March 1918The treaty ended Russia’s participation in the First World War at the cost of extensive territory and population. Stalin supported the Bolshevik government as it faced military intervention, civil...
The Russian Soviet Republic adopts its first constitution
📅 10 July 1918The Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets adopted a constitution that formalized a soviet republic and class-based political rights. It established a new institutional order while excluding some...
Stalin is assigned to the Southern Front during the Civil War
📅 25 May 1919The Bolshevik leadership sent Stalin to help organize defense against White forces around Tsaritsyn. The Civil War brought mass violence, requisitioning, famine, and competing claims to political...
Soviet Russia and Iran sign a friendship treaty
📅 26 February 1921Iran and Soviet Russia signed a friendship treaty in Moscow. Soviet Russia repudiated the former tsarist policy and unequal agreements, marking a formal break with imperial practice while leaving...
Soviet-Persian Treaty repudiates Tsarist privileges
📅 26 February 1921The Moscow treaty renounced a range of Tsarist-era privileges and debts and recognized Persian sovereignty. Article 6 also reserved a Soviet right to intervene if a third power used Iranian...
Treaty of Riga divides contested lands between Poland and Soviet republics
📅 18 March 1921The peace treaty ended the Polish-Soviet War and set a border that left millions of Ukrainians and Belarusians outside their national republics. The treaty’s terms reflected bargaining among states...