Politburo approves plans for Central Asian national delimitation

Italy formally recognized the USSR, one of several European governments that established relations with the new state in 1924. Diplomatic recognition improved Soviet access to trade and...

The party leadership approved a large recruitment drive after Lenin’s death, opening membership to hundreds of thousands of workers. The campaign broadened the social base of the Communist Party while...

The plenary of the Bukhara Communist Party endorsed national-territorial delimitation, part of a sequence of regional party decisions that preceded the reorganization of Soviet Central Asia. Local...

The first Party Congress after Lenin’s death opened amid a leadership struggle and debates over party growth, discipline and economic policy. The meeting marked a transition in party leadership and...

The Sino-Soviet agreement restored diplomatic relations and declared that tsarist-era treaties affecting Chinese sovereignty would be reviewed or annulled. It addressed the Chinese Eastern Railway and...

An armed uprising began in Georgia against Soviet rule, drawing on opposition to the loss of independence, coercive state policy and restrictions on political life. Soviet security forces crushed...

The Central Executive Committee approved the reorganization of Central Asia, establishing the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs and a Tajik autonomous republic within Uzbekistan. The reforms dismantled the...

The First State Great Khural proclaimed the Mongolian People’s Republic and adopted its first constitution, abolishing the monarchy after the Bogd Khan’s death. Mongolia was not a Soviet republic, but...

The USSR and Japan signed the Basic Convention establishing diplomatic relations and agreeing on the evacuation of Japanese troops from northern Sakhalin. The settlement restored Soviet sovereignty...

The first volume of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia appeared, part of a project to organize knowledge and define a new socialist account of society and history. The encyclopedia reflected real expansion...