Britain recognizes Soviet Union
February 1, 1924
Ramsay MacDonald's first Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union, the first major Western power to do so after the Russian Civil War. Trade and loan talks began. A year later a Conservative government reversed course. Normal relations between capitalist and communist states would remain awkward for seventy years.
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Also in 1924 (3 other events on record)
- Lenin dies, Stalin maneuvers · Europe · Politics
- Gershwin premieres Rhapsody in Blue · North America · Culture
- First Winter Olympics at Chamonix · Europe · Culture
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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