Lenin Chronology

All dates are given in the New Style. Up to February 1918 the Russians customarily employed an archaic system which differed by about thirteen days from the system employed in the West. Hence the occasional references to the February and October revolutions which occurred according to the Western calendar in March and November.

1870 April 22 Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin).

1871 March 18-May 28 Paris Commune.

1873 January 20 Nechayev condemned by Moscow District Court to 20 years’

hard labor in Siberia.

1879 November 7 Birth of Lev Davydovich Bronstein (Trotsky).

1879 December 21 Birth of Yosif Visarionovich Djugashvili (Stalin).

1880 February 16 Stepan Khalturin blows up part of the Winter Palace.

1881 March 13 Alexander II assassinated.

1882 December 3 Nechayev dies in Peter and Paul Fortress.

1886 January 24 Death of Ilya Ulyanov.

1887 May 20 Alexander Ulyanov hanged.

1887 August 25 Lenin enters Kazan University.

1887 December 17 Lenin arrested for participation in student protest.

1890 September Lenin visits St. Petersburg for examinations.

1894 March Lenin writes What the “Friends of the People” Are and How

They Fight Against the Social Democrats

1895 May-September Lenin goes abroad.

1895 December 21 Lenin arrested.

1897 February 10 Lenin exiled to Siberia.

1897 May 20 Lenin reaches Shushenskoye.

1898 March 13-15 First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in

Minsk.

1898 July 22 Lenin marries Nadezhda Krupskaya.

1899 April Publishes The Development of Capitalism in Russia.

1900 February 10 Leaves Shushenskoye for European Russia.

1900 March Meets Vera Zasulich in St. Petersburg.

1900 June 3 Arrested, and released ten days later.

1900 June 20 Visits Krupskaya at Ufa.

1900 July 29 Goes abroad.

1901 May Works on What Is to Be Done?

1902 April 12 Settles in London.

1903 May Abandons London for Geneva.

1903 July 30-August 23 Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in

London.

1903 December Resigns from Iskra.

1904 March 14 Resigns from Central Committee of Party.

1905 January 4 Publishes first number of Vperyod.

1905 January 22 Father Gapon leads procession to the Winter Palace.

1905 April 25-May 10 Third Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party.

1905 June 27 Mutiny on cruiser Potemkin.

1905 November 21 Lenin arrives in St. Petersburg.

1905 December 16 St. Petersburg Soviet arrested.

1906 May 22 Lenin addresses meeting at house of Countess Panina.

1907 January-April Lenin living in Kokkala (Finland).

1907 January Lenin is arraigned before Party tribunal.

1907 April 13-June 1 Fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party opens in

London.

1907 December Settles in Switzerland

1908 April Visits Gorky in Capri.

1908 October Completes Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.

1908 December Abandons Geneva for Paris.

1910 November Founds Rabochaya Gazeta.

1911 Summer Holds revolutionary school at Longjumeau near Paris.

1912 January Prague Conference.

1912 June Settles in Cracow.

1913 May Moves to Poronino.

1913 June-August Visits Switzerland and Austria.

1914 August 8 Arrested at Novy Targ.

1914 August 19 Released.

1914 September 5 Leaves for Switzerland.

1915 September 18-21 Zimmerwald Conference.

1916 May 6-12 Kienthal Conference.

1917 March 8 February Revolution begins.

1917 March 15 Nicholas II abdicates.

1917 April 16 Lenin arrives at the Finland Station.

1917 April 17 He delivers “April Theses”

1917 July 17-18 “July Days”

1917 July 24 He hides in Sestroretsk.

1917 Summer and autumn Lenin hides in Finland and writes The State and Revolution.

1917 October 23 Secret meeting in Sukhanov’s apartment.

1917 November 6 Lenin leaves his hiding place and comes to Smolny late in the

evening.

1917 November 8 Winter Palace falls. Decree on Land.

1917 December 20 Cheka established.

1918 January 18-19 Constituent Assembly meets, and is destroyed.

1918 January 20 Lenin writes “Twenty-one Theses”.

1918 February 8 Gregorian calendar adopted.

1918 March 10 Lenin leaves Petrograd and establishes his government in

Moscow.

1918 July 17 Royal family executed at Ekaterinburg.

1918 August 30 Uritsky assassinated; Lenin wounded.

1918 September Red and White Terror.

1918 September 11 Kazan occupied by Red Army.

1918 September 16 Lenin returns to work.

1918 November 10 He completes The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade

Kautsky.

1919 March 2-6 First Congress of Communist International.

1919 March 16 Death of Sverdlov.

1919 July Red Army captures Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk.

1919 October Denikin’s army close to Orel and Yudenich close to Petrograd.

1920 Spring Lenin writes Infantile Malady of Communism.

1920 July 21-August 6 Second Congress of the Communist International.

1920 August 17 Red Army begins retreat from Poland.

1920 November 10 Red Army recaptures Crimea.

1921 March 1-18 Kronstadt uprising.

1921 August 11 Official publication of decree announcing New Economic

Policy.

1922 February 6 Cheka reorganized as G.P.U.

1922 March Lenin’s health failing.

1922 May 26 Lenin suffers first stroke.

1922 Summer Spends most of his time at Gorki.

1922 December 16 Lenin has second stroke.

1922 December 25 He dictates his Testament.

1923 March 9 Lenin has third stroke: end of his public career.

1923 April 17-25 Twelfth Party Congress: the first without Lenin.

1923 October 19 He visits Moscow.

1924 January 16-18 Thirteenth Party Conference condemns Trotsky.

1924 January 18 Trotsky leaves Moscow for Sukhum.

1924 January 21 Death of Lenin.

1924 January 27 Funeral.

Lenin’s Body

Lenin’s Body Screenplay by: Alan Nafzger Magic vodka allows two men to steal Lenin’s body the night before it is [read screenplay]