«Judgement in Moscow, Contents»
| WORLD | 19′ | USSR / Russian Empire | Vladimir BUKOVSKY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July : WW1 begins | ’14 | ||
| ’17 | 23 February OS (12 March): Revolution * 25 October OS (7 November): Bolshevik coup d’etat * Russian Civil War begins | ||
| 11 November: WW1 ends | ’18 | ||
| ’21 | NEP introduced (New Economic Policy) | ||
| ’22 | 25 October: Civil War ends | ||
| ’28 | January: Grain crisis * Collectivisation of Soviet countryside begins; First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) | ||
| October: Great Depression begins | ’29 | ||
| ’30 | March: “Dizzy with Success” | ||
| ’31 | B’s father Konstantin (b. 1908) joins Party | ||
| ’32-3 | FAMINE: Kazakhstan, Kuban, Ukraine | ||
| ’34 | 10 Feb-10 March: Congress of Victors * 1 Dec: Stalin rival Kirov assassinated | ||
| ’36 | August: Moscow Show Trials start | ||
| ’37 | 5 August: Great Terror begins | ||
| ’38 | March: Last Moscow Show Trial * 17 November: Great Terror ends | ||
| Gt Depression ends * 1 September: WW2 begins | ’39 | 23 August: Soviet-Nazi Pact | |
| 7 September: London blitz begins | ’40 | ||
11 November: London blitz ends * 7 December: Pearl Harbour attack, Hawaii | ’41 | 22 June: GERMAN INVASION OF USSR | Konstantin B. serves as war correspondent |
| ’42 | 30 December: BUKOVSKY BORN IN EVACUATION | ||
| 15 August: VJ Day * 2 Sept: WW2 ends * 22 Oct: Tribunal opens in Nuremberg | ’45 | ||
| 1 October: Nuremberg Tribunal closes | ’46 | Konstantin B. works for Ogonyok magazine | |
| ’53 | 5 March: Death of Stalin | ||
29 October: Suez crisis begins | ’56 | 25 February: Khrushchov’s “Secret Speech” at 20th Party Congress * 3 November: Invasion of Hungary* | |
| March: Suez crisis ends | ’57 | ||
| ’61 | 17-31 October: 22nd Party Congress * Stalin moved out of Mausoleum | ||
| ’63 | 1 June: B. arrested, sent to Leningrad SPH | ||
| ’64 | Khrushchov ousted, replaced by Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny | ||
| ’65 | 5 December (Constitution Day): Glasnost rally about coming Sinyavsky-Daniel trial | Feb: B. released | |
| ’66 | January: Sinyavsky and Daniel convicted | ||
| ’67 | 22 January: Pushkin Square protest | Jan: B. re-arrested | |
| ’68 | 30 April: CCE first issue * 25 August: Red Square protest, “For Your Freedom, and for Ours” | B. in penal colony (Mordovia) | |
| ’70 | Jan: B. released | ||
| 5th World Psychiatric Congress (Mexico) | ’71 | 29 March: B. re-arrested | |
| ’74 | 9 February: Solzhenitsyn deported | B. in penal colony & Vladimir Prison | |
| 1 August: Helsinki Accords | ’75 | ||
| ’76 | 15 December: B. exchanged for Luis Corvalan * (B’s father Konstantin dies, aged 68) |
See Chronology Two : 1977-2019
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