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Events relating to europe
The Cheka (origin of the KGB) is established to suppress political dissent in Russia
Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic
Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition
The British viceroy in Dublin imprisons 73 Sinn Fein leaders, including Eamon de Valera, on allegations of a German plot
British women are at last given the right to vote, but only if aged 30 or over
Wafd, a national party, is formed in Cairo with the purpose of ending Egypt's enforced link with Britain
Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians
In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution
Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier
The Russian artist Kasimir Malevich begins a series of White on White paintings
Marie Stopes, a committed advocate of birth control, publishes Married Love, a frank discussion of sexual relations
Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld produces his 'Red and Blue Chair', under the influence of the De Stijl movement
Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war
Countess Markiewicz, an Irish republican, is elected a member of Britain's House of Commons but refuses to take her seat
Supporters of the old regime within the Russian army prepare to use force against the new Bolshevik regime
Lenin dissolves the elected assembly in Petrograd to establish a one-party Soviet state
Lavr Kornilov leads the heroic Ice March which boosts the morale of the White Russians
The Bolsheviks, now in power, change their name to the more resounding Russian Communist Party
At Brest-Litovsk Lenin signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria, ceding vast territories and valuable resources
Lenin moves the capital of Russia from Petrograd back to Moscow
Trotsky, given the task of creating an army for the Bolsheviks, conscripts peasants from the villages
The German air ace Baron von Richthofen is finally shot down, after himself destroying 80 Allied planes
US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front
Russia's peasants, victims of White and Red Terror, suffer atrocities from both sides in the civil war
Civil war enables the Bolsheviks to impose a rigid system of state control on the Russian economy, through War Communism and Food Brigades
