Civil and Political Life
in Russia during the Great Patriotic War
(1941-1945)

 
A historical overview of the political and civilian events
between 1941 and 1945.
 

This section will give a brief history of the civil and political events that took place throughout the USSR during the years of the Great Patriotic War.  Joseph Stalin himself will also be profiled at a later time.

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1941-1945

 

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(1941-1945)

1924-1953 Joseph Stalin

 

 

 

Timeline 1941-1945

 

1941

 

13 April Stalin signs non-agression pact with Japan.

22 June

German invasion of the Soviet Union.
23 June Hungary and Slovakia join Germany in declaring war on the Soviet Union.
26 June Finland declares war on the USSR.
29 June Stalin, Malenkov, Voroshilov, and Beria form Defense Committee.
12 July The Soviets sign a mutual assistance pact with England against Nazi Germany.
7 August Josef Stalin names himself the supreme leader of the USSR. 
25 August Soviet and British forces enter Persia to keep them from joining with the Axis powers.
1 September Mass deportations of Volga Germans begins.
16 October Elements of the Soviet government leave Moscow for Kuybyshev.

1942

 

20 February United States grants the Soviet Union a one billion dollar loan.
5 April Congress of Slavic Peoples is held in Moscow.

 

Winston Churchill visits Moscow.
The Lend-Lease program is in full operation between US and USSR.
- Stalin is again named Time Magazine's 'Man of the Year'.

1943

 

 

January V. I. Kurchakov is directed by Central Committee of USSR to organize a new scientific establishment in Moscow to study 'uranium based weapons'.
German 6th Army surrenders in Stalingrad.
13 April German forces discover the bodies of 4,143 Polish soldiers executed at Katyn.
ComIntern is dissolved.

October

Sergius becomes Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.

19 October

The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began with the primary goal of improving allied relations with the Soviet Union.

October

Second Moscow Congress is held.
28 November Teheran Conference is held in Iran.
It is the first meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.  Together they plan the future course of the war and the design of the post-war world.

1944

 

26 January Soviets issue their report on the Katyn Forest massacres.
11 May An order banishing the entire Tartar population of the Crimea to Siberia is signed.
21 August Soviet representatives meet with officials from the United States, China, and England near Washington to plan for the creation of the United Nations.
22 August The Russian dancer and choreographer, Michel Fokine died at the age of 62. He was a great influence on classical ballet.
20 September Soviet Union and Finland sign a provisional peace treaty.
9 October Winston Churchill and Stalin meet at the Third Moscow Conference.
19 October Third Moscow Conference ends.
13 December The Russian abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky died.  He had left the Soviet Union in 1921.

1945

 

 

  4-14 February

Stalin attends the Yalta Conference in the Crimea.

 May

Vienna and Berlin are taken by Soviet forces.
17 July - 2 August The Potsdam Conference is held (Stalin, Attlee, and Truman attend).
24 July Eisenstein wins the Stalin Prize for his Ivan the Terrible, Part I.
8 August Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
14 August Japan accepts the Allied terms of unconditional surrender, ending World War Two.
2 September Japan signs surrender document and the Second World War ends.

   

 

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