1920s in the Soviet Union

multi-sided civil war in the former Russian Empire, November 1917-October 1922

economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR

decentralized decolonial movement which undertook a uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim peoples of Central Asia (1916–1934)

forced economic reforms of collective ownership of the means of production

major centralised economic plan in the USSR

1920s–1930s campaign to develop Latin alphabets for the languages of the Soviet Union

thumb|"- Woman, learn to read and write! - Oh, mother! If you were literate, you could help me!" A poster by Elizaveta Kruglikova advocating female literacy, 1923.

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Coup d'état in Persia, 1921

counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union

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1922–24 Soviet reform of the Armenian orthography

1928–1931 forced cultural and ideological restructuring of Soviet society

REDIRECT New Economic Policy#NEPmen

Khozraschyot (; short for , 'economic accounting') was an attempt to introduce capitalist concepts of profit and profit center into the planned economy of the Soviet Union. Khozraschyot introduced a certain degree of independence of enterprises (which continued to be state-owned and subject to state control) and allowed for self-management and self-financing within the framework of prices set by the Soviet government.

seven-year period of accelerated inflation ocurred during the early XX century