1917

Lenin sets up the terrorist police Cheka

• The Bolsheviks launched an assault on Kokand in February 1918 and carried out a general massacre of up to 25,000 people.

• Ingushetia, Chechnya, and Dagestan declared independence from Russia and formed a single state "United Mountain Dwellers of the North Caucasus"

• 1917-1922 Russian Civil War

• 1917-1921 Ukrainian–Soviet War, Ukrainian War of Independence

• 1914-1918 World War I

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

• 1795-1918 Belorussia under Russian rule

• 1783-1917 War with Georgia

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