New (and changing) structures

• Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (bolsheviks)
• March 1918: Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) (VKP(b))
• December 1925: Communist Party fo the Soviet Union (bolsheviks) (CPSU(b))
• October 1952: CPSU
• December 1922: USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Civil War

• Red Army
• Trotsky (War Commissar)
• White Armies
• Decree on Land
• War Communism
• Supreme Council of the National Economy
• 1920-21: Famine
• Kronstadt Rebellion
• 10th Party Congress
• New Economic Policy (NEP)