The document discusses key events in early Russian and Soviet history including the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, the Russian Civil War, the formation of the Warsaw Pact alliance in 1955 between Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc states, the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 making the Soviet Union the first nation to put a satellite into Earth orbit, and the mission of Laika the dog who was the first animal to orbit Earth on Sputnik 2 in 1957.
The document discusses key events in early Russian and Soviet history including the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, the Russian Civil War, the formation of the Warsaw Pact alliance in 1955 between Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc states, the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 making the Soviet Union the first nation to put a satellite into Earth orbit, and the mission of Laika the dog who was the first animal to orbit Earth on Sputnik 2 in 1957.
The document discusses key events in early Russian and Soviet history including the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, the Russian Civil War, the formation of the Warsaw Pact alliance in 1955 between Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc states, the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 making the Soviet Union the first nation to put a satellite into Earth orbit, and the mission of Laika the dog who was the first animal to orbit Earth on Sputnik 2 in 1957.