| WORLD | YEAR | USSR / Russian Empire | Vladimir BUKOVSKY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July : WW1 begins | 1914 | ||
| 1917 | 23 February OS (12 March): Revolution * 25 October OS (7 November): Bolshevik coup d’etat* Russian Civil War begins | ||
| 11 November: WW1 ends | 1918 | ||
| 1921 | NEP introduced (New Economic Policy) | ||
| 1922 | 25 October: Civil War ends | ||
| 1928 | January: Grain crisis* Collectivisation of Soviet countryside begins; First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) | ||
| October: Great Depression begins | 1929 | ||
| 1930 | March: “Dizzy with Success” | ||
| 1931 | B’s father Konstantin (b. 1908) joins Party | ||
| 1932-3 | FAMINE: Kazakhstan, Kuban, Ukraine | ||
| 1934 | 10 Feb-10 March: Congress of Victors* * 1 Dec: Stalin rival Kirov assassinated* | ||
| 1936 | August: Moscow Show Trials start | ||
| 1937 | 5 August: Great Terror begins | ||
| 1938 | March: Last Moscow Show Trial * 17 November: Great Terror ends | ||
| Gt Depression ends * 1 September: WW2 begins | 1939 | 23 August: Soviet-Nazi Pact | |
| 7 September: London blitz begins | 1940 | ||
11 November: London blitz ends * 7 December: Pearl Harbour attack, Hawaii* | 1941 | 22 June: GERMAN INVASION OF USSR | Konstantin B. serves as war correspondent |
| 1942 | 30 December: BUKOVSKY BORN IN EVACUATION | ||
| 15 August: VJ Day* 2 Sept: WW2 ends * 22 Oct: Tribunal opens in Nuremberg | 1945 | ||
| 1 October: Nuremberg Tribunal closes | 1946 | Konstantin B. works for Ogonyok magazine | |
| 1953 | 5 March: Death of Stalin | ||
29 October: Suez crisis begins* | 1956 | 25 February: Khrushchov’s “Secret Speech” at 20th Party Congress* * 3 November: Invasion of Hungary* | |
| March: Suez crisis ends | 1957 | ||
| 1961 | 17-31 October: 22nd Party Congress* Stalin moved out of Mausoleum | ||
| 1963 | 1 June: B. arrested, sent to Leningrad SPH | ||
| 1964 | Khrushchov ousted, replaced by Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny | ||
| 1965 | 5 December (Constitution Day): Glasnost rally about coming Sinyavsky-Daniel trial | Feb: B. released | |
| 1966 | January: Sinyavsky and Daniel convicted | ||
| 1967 | 22 January: Pushkin Square protest | Jan: B. re-arrested | |
| 1968 | 30 April: CCE first issue * 25 August: Red Square protest, “For Your Freedom, and for Ours” | B. in penal colony (Mordovia) | |
| 1970 | Jan: B. released | ||
| 5th World Psychiatric Congress (Mexico) | 1971 | 29 March: B. re-arrested | |
| 1974 | 9 February: Solzhenitsyn deported | B. in penal colony & Vladimir Prison | |
| 1976 | 15 December: B. exchanged for Luis Corvalan * (B’s father Konstantin dies, aged 68) |
See Chronology Two : 1977-2019
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