Who am I - Russian
I led the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution and became the first leader of Soviet Russia.
I was the British Prime Minister who warned that an "Iron Curtain" had descended across Europe.
Winston Churchill
A brutal conflict between the Red Army and various anti-Bolshevik forces from 1918 to 1921.
Russian Civil War
A US-funded program that provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
The Marshall Plan
This organisation was the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1918 until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
CPSU
I was the last Tsar of Russia and abdicated in March 1917.
Tsar Nicholas II
I was the Soviet leader who introduced Glasnost and Perestroika in the 1980s.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Millions of peasants were forced onto collective farms as Stalin sought to modernise agriculture.
Collectivisation
A series of reforms introduced in the Soviet Union involving openness and restructuring.
Glasnost and Perestroika
Established in 1951, this organisation united the coal and steel industries of six Western European nations and laid the foundations for European integration.
ECSC
I organised the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and later became one of Stalin's greatest rivals.
Leon Trotsky
I was the Polish trade union leader who became a symbol of resistance to communist rule.
Lech Walesa
A series of show trials, arrests and executions designed to eliminate Stalin's political opponents during the 1930s.
The Purges
This agreement, signed in 1975, recognised post-war European borders and promoted human rights, contributing to the eventual weakening of communist control in Eastern Europe.
The Helsinki Accord
A series of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union aimed at limiting nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
SALT
I was a leading Bolshevik who supported the New Economic Policy and argued that socialism could be built gradually. After losing the power struggle to Stalin, I was accused of treason during the Great Purges and executed in 1938.
Nikolai Bukharin
I was the communist leader of East Germany from 1971 to 1989. I strongly supported the Soviet Union, opposed democratic reforms, and resigned shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Erich Honecker
A group of sailors at a naval base near Petrograd, once considered among the Bolsheviks' strongest supporters, rebelled against Communist rule in 1921.
The Kronstadt Uprising
This 1956 challenge to Soviet control began in Eastern Europe and was crushed by Soviet military intervention after calls for greater political freedom.
The Hungarian Uprising
Founded by the Treaty of Rome in 1957, this economic organisation promoted trade and cooperation among Western European nations before evolving into the European Union.
EEC
I headed the NKVD during the Great Purges and played a key role in Stalin's campaign of terror before eventually being executed myself.
Nikolai Yezhov
I was the President of the United States during the 1980s. I adopted a hard-line stance against the Soviet Union, increased military spending, and famously challenged Soviet leaders by calling for the Berlin Wall to be torn down.
Ronald Reagan
In August 1917, a Russian general attempted to restore order by moving troops towards Petrograd.
Kornilov Affair
Signed in 1963 by the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom, this agreement prohibited nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.
The Test Ban Treaty
This Soviet secret police organisation carried out political repression, surveillance, and mass arrests under Stalin before being replaced in 1946.
NKVD