An Soviet calendar page for 22 October 1935 including the Esperanto oktobro among other translations.

* 1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar ( on 1 February according to the Julian calendar ).

Soviet calendar 12 December 1937 ( Below 12 :) " Sixth day of the six-day week " ————————— " Election day for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "

October 22 page from a Soviet revolutionary calendar with six-day weeks.

See: Soviet calendar.

* Soviet calendar

Although many sources erroneously state that 30-day months were used in the Soviet Union for part or all of the period 1929 – 1940, in fact the Soviet calendar with 5-and 6-day weeks was only used for assigning workdays and days of rest in factories.

The traditional calendar remained for everyday use — surviving physical calendars from that period only show the irregular months of the Gregorian calendar, including a 28-or 29-day February, so there was never a February 30 in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet calendar added five-and six-day work weeks between 1929 and 1940 to the Gregorian calendar adopted by Russia in 1918.

Soviet calendar, 1930 Colored five-day work week Days grouped into seven-day weeks One national holiday in black, four with white numbers Soviet calendar, January – September 1930 One worker's red rest days of the five-day work week

Soviet pocket calendar, 1931 Numbered five-day work week, excluding five national holidays

A 1929 Time magazine article reporting Soviet five-day work weeks, which it called an " Eternal calendar ", associated them with the French Republican Calendar, which had months containing three ten-day weeks.

In a government commission proposed a " Soviet revolutionary calendar " containing twelve 30-day months plus five national holidays that were not part of any month, but it was rejected because it would differ from the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of Europe.

During the 1930s, multiple acts of cannibalism were reported from Ukraine and Russia's Volga, South Siberian and Kuban regions during the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

In 1933, the Soviet Government sold the Codex Sinaiticus for 100, 000 pounds to the British Museum in London, England.

Also, in spite of ideological differences, Fascist Italy was the first western country to recognize the Soviet Union, in 1933 Fascist Italy had signed a friendship and nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union, and in the late 1930s both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany supported rapproachment with the Soviet Union.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

The initial upheaval in agriculture disrupted food production and contributed to the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

* Mace, James E. " The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine ", Famine in Ukraine 1932 – 1933: A Memorial Exhibition, edited by Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko.

* 1933 – Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut ( d. 2003 )

* 1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.

* Herbert von Dirksen: German Ambassador to the Soviet Union ( 1928 – 1933 ), Japan ( 1933 – 1938 ), and the United Kingdom ( 1938 – 1939 )

From 1930 to 1933, he served in the Soviet frontier guards on the Soviet-Chinese border.

The rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933 resulted in the Soviet Union initially terminating the political connections it previously had established with Germany in the 1920s and Stalin turned to accommodate Czechoslovakia and the West against Hitler.

As a child, Gorbachev experienced the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

* 1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union.

The transitional disorganisation of the country's agriculture, combined with the harsh state policies and a drought, led to the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933.

* 1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak ( now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan ) ( 7495 m ).

* 1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet astronaut ( d. 2000 )

According to several Western historians, Stalinist agricultural policies were a key factor in causing the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933, which the Ukrainian government now calls the Holodomor, recognizing it as an act of genocide.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

On 14 May 1955, the USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in October 1954 – only nine years after the defeat of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 45 ) that ended with the Soviet and Allied invasion of Germany in 1944 / 45 during World War II in Europe.

The Ukrainian letter ge ґ was banned in the Soviet Union from 1933 until the period of Glasnost in 1990.

The ( 1932 – 1933 ) achieved some early successes, but Chiang ’ s armies were badly mauled when they tried to penetrate into the heart of Mao ’ s Soviet Chinese Republic.

* David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Vintage Books, 1994, ISBN 0-679-75125-4

Days before, the standard Soviet gondolas were changed to bigger ones brought from Finland without any precautions.

The introduction Taylor wrote was fairly sympathetic towards the Bolsheviks but also pointedly tweaked the Kremlin's nose by pointing out certain contradictions between Reed's book and the official historiography in the Soviet Union — for instance Leon Trotsky played a very prominent and heroic role in Ten Days That Shook The World while in 1963 Trotsky was almost a non-person in Soviet historiography, mentioned only in terms of abuse.

* 1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick

Kerensky released Bolsheviks who had been arrested a few months earlier, when Vladimir Lenin had tried to take power in the July Days, and his plea to the Petrograd Soviet for support had resulted the rearmament of the Bolshevik Military Organization and the release of Bolshevik political prisoners, including Leon Trotsky.

Halifax took part in a plethora of international conferences over the UN and the Soviet Union but, here again, he believed that Churchill's view of the Soviet threat was exaggerated and urged him to be more conciliatory, perhaps indicating his reluctance to learn the lessons of the 1930s so obvious in his 1957 autobiography The Fulness of Days, described in the Dictionary of National Biography as " gently evasive ".

The work was written in Dresden, where Shostakovich was to write music for the film Five Days, Five Nights, a joint project by Soviet and East German filmmakers about Bombing of Dresden in World War II.

Mount Weather was mentioned as the emergency facility in the case of a Soviet nuclear attack from Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 2000 film Thirteen Days.

Latvian demonstrators managed to stop the Soviet troops from re-occupying strategic positions, and these events are known as the " Days of the Barricades ".

October: Ten Days That Shook the World (; ) is a Soviet silent film premiered in 1928 by Sergei Eisenstein, sometimes referred to simply as October in English.

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.

In 2002 he published Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich, a work based on newly-available evidence following the opening of the Soviet archives, but which largely confirmed the account of Hitler's death given in Hugh Trevor-Roper's book The Last Days of Hitler ( 1947 ).

Yavlinsky's commitment to a market economy was established when in 1990 he wrote " 500 Days " – a program for the Soviet Union promising rapid transition from centrally planned economy to a free market in less than 2 years.

The festival most associated with Kalniņš is the Imantdienas (' The Days of Imants '), extremely popular during the Soviet times and therefore banned.

During the election Bocharov revealed his radical economic reform plan to the Supreme Soviet deputies ; in it industry would be privatised, and subsidies to unprofitable enterprises would cease in a 100 Days reform package.

Official scenarios ( the ones published in scenario booklets and on the Days of Wonder internet site ) have full support from the DoW team and are thoroughly playtested to ensure balance between the two players ( e. g. not a total overrun of German troops at the start of the Soviet campaign ) and others represent more tough battles like the assault on Omaha Beach, where the Allied player has difficulty in crossing the beach inland.