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21 January 1924 Unknown Lenin Lenin dies at Gorki
10 March 1923 Unknown Lenin Lenin suffers a major stroke and withdraws from political work
2 March 1923 Unknown Lenin Lenin writes Better Fewer, But Better on state bureaucracy
6 January 1923 Unknown Lenin Lenin writes On Cooperation
4 January 1923 Unknown Lenin Lenin dictates his final political testament and questions party leadership
31 December 1922 Unknown Lenin Lenin dictates notes criticizing Great Russian chauvinism
30 December 1922 Soviet Union Lenin The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formally established
20 November 1922 Unknown Lenin Lenin delivers his last public speech to the Moscow Soviet
26 May 1922 Unknown Lenin Lenin suffers his first major stroke
16 April 1922 Italy Lenin The Treaty of Rapallo reshapes Soviet-German relations
3 April 1922 Unknown Lenin Stalin becomes General Secretary as Lenin’s health declines
1 February 1922 Unknown Lenin Lenin drafts directives for Soviet delegates to the Genoa Conference
30 December 1921 Russia Lenin Lenin drafts theses on trade unions under the New Economic Policy
1 July 1921 Unknown Lenin Famine and economic collapse deepen the crisis of Soviet rule
22 June 1921 Russia Lenin Lenin presents theses to the Third Comintern Congress
21 April 1921 Russia Lenin Lenin completes The Tax in Kind
21 March 1921 Unknown Lenin The New Economic Policy replaces grain requisition with a tax
16 March 1921 Unknown Lenin The Tenth Party Congress bans factions
1 March 1921 Unknown Lenin The Kronstadt revolt challenges Bolshevik rule
8 February 1921 Russia Lenin Lenin drafts theses concerning the peasants
25 January 1921 Russia Lenin Lenin publishes Once Again on the Trade Unions
30 December 1920 Russia Lenin Lenin intervenes in the trade-union debate with Trotsky
3 November 1920 Russia Lenin Lenin speaks to political education workers about propaganda and literacy
2 October 1920 Russia Lenin Lenin addresses the Russian Communist Youth League
1 September 1920 Unknown Lenin The Congress of the Peoples of the East meets in Baku
26 July 1920 Unknown Lenin Lenin reports on national and colonial questions to the Second Comintern Congress
19 July 1920 Unknown Lenin Lenin addresses the Second Comintern Congress on strategy
8 June 1920 Russia Lenin Lenin’s pamphlet Left-Wing Communism reaches Comintern delegates
5 June 1920 Russia Lenin Lenin circulates theses on national and colonial questions
10 May 1920 Russia Lenin Lenin sends a message of solidarity to the Indian Revolutionary Association
21 December 1919 Russia Lenin Lenin writes on economics and politics during proletarian dictatorship
22 November 1919 Russia Lenin Lenin addresses the Second Congress of Communist Organizations of the East
18 March 1919 Russia Lenin The Eighth Party Congress debates a new Communist Party programme
2 March 1919 Russia Lenin The Communist International meets in Moscow
13 November 1918 Russia Lenin Lenin argues for Soviet power amid civil war
11 November 1918 Russia Lenin Lenin publishes The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
5 September 1918 Russia Lenin The Soviet government formalizes Red Terror measures
30 August 1918 Russia Lenin Lenin is shot in an assassination attempt; repression escalates
10 July 1918 Russia Lenin The Russian Soviet Republic adopts its first constitution
23 May 1918 Russia Lenin Lenin addresses labour commissars on discipline and production
30 April 1918 Russia Lenin Lenin issues Six Theses on the Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power
23 March 1918 Russia Lenin Lenin publishes The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government
3 March 1918 Unknown Lenin The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk takes Russia out of the war
19 January 1918 Russia Lenin The Constituent Assembly is dissolved after one sitting
8 November 1917 Russia Lenin The Congress of Soviets adopts decrees on peace and land
7 November 1917 Russia Lenin The Bolsheviks take power in Petrograd
26 September 1917 Finland Lenin Lenin asks whether the Bolsheviks can retain state power
14 September 1917 Finland Lenin Lenin urges the Bolsheviks to prepare for insurrection
10 September 1917 Finland Lenin Lenin drafts The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It
1 September 1917 Finland Lenin Lenin writes The State and Revolution in hiding
16 July 1917 Russia Lenin The July Days bring armed demonstrations and repression
17 April 1917 Russia Lenin Lenin presents the April Theses
16 April 1917 Russia Lenin Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile
15 March 1917 Russian Empire Lenin The February Revolution overthrows the Romanov monarchy
9 March 1917 Switzerland Lenin Lenin analyses dual power after the February Revolution
1 January 1916 Switzerland Lenin Lenin develops the argument for national self-determination under imperialism
1 January 1916 Switzerland Lenin Lenin writes on national self-determination
1 January 1916 Switzerland Lenin Lenin develops a theory of imperialism and uneven global power
5 September 1915 Switzerland Lenin Zimmerwald anti-war conference convenes
1 September 1915 Switzerland Lenin Lenin studies Hegel and records the Philosophical Notebooks
23 August 1915 Switzerland Lenin Lenin debates the slogan of a United States of Europe
1 May 1915 Switzerland Lenin Lenin publishes The Collapse of the Second International
9 January 1915 Switzerland Lenin Lenin asks What Next? as socialist parties fracture over the war
12 December 1914 Switzerland Lenin Lenin publishes On the National Pride of the Great Russians
1 August 1914 Unknown Lenin World War I begins for Russia; Lenin opposes support for the war
16 December 1913 Unknown Lenin Lenin publishes Critical Remarks on the National Question
1 March 1913 Unknown Lenin Lenin publishes The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
1 May 1912 Unknown Lenin Lenin writes on the revival of the Russian workers’ movement
22 April 1912 Russian Empire Lenin Pravda begins publication in St Petersburg
17 April 1912 Unknown Lenin The Lena Goldfields massacre sparks protest across Russia
18 January 1912 Unknown Lenin The Prague Conference organizes a Bolshevik-centered party
1 July 1911 France Lenin Lenin helps organize a workers’ school at Longjumeau
1 January 1910 France Lenin Lenin reflects on factional conflict and the socialist movement
12 May 1909 Russian Empire Lenin Materialism and Empirio-Criticism appears in print
1 July 1908 Unknown Lenin Lenin works on Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
1 December 1907 Unknown Lenin Lenin completes The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution
1 December 1907 Unknown Lenin Lenin goes into a second period of European exile
1 August 1906 Unknown Lenin Lenin intervenes in debates over agrarian confiscation and land ownership
1 May 1906 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin assesses the first State Duma and the Cadet Party
23 April 1906 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin argues for participation in the State Duma
20 March 1906 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin drafts a revision of the Social-Democratic agrarian programme
8 November 1905 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin returns to Russia during the 1905 Revolution
1 August 1905 Switzerland Lenin Lenin debates whether socialists should boycott the Bulygin Duma
1 June 1905 Switzerland Lenin Lenin writes on the provisional revolutionary government
14 February 1905 Switzerland Lenin Lenin sets out Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
22 January 1905 Russian Empire Lenin Bloody Sunday helps ignite revolution across the empire
1 May 1904 Switzerland Lenin Lenin publishes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
23 August 1903 Unknown Lenin The RSDLP congress splits into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions
1 March 1902 German Empire Lenin Lenin publishes What Is to Be Done?
29 July 1900 Unknown Lenin Lenin leaves Russia to help publish Iskra
1 July 1899 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin completes The Development of Capitalism in Russia
13 March 1898 Russian Empire Lenin The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party is founded
13 February 1897 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin is sentenced to exile in eastern Siberia
8 December 1895 Russian Empire Lenin The Union for the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class is raided
1 April 1895 France, Switzerland Lenin Lenin travels abroad to meet Russian Marxists in exile
1 August 1893 Russian Empire Lenin Ulyanov moves to St Petersburg and enters Marxist circles
1 November 1891 Russian Empire Lenin Ulyanov completes law examinations as an external student
4 December 1887 Russian Empire Lenin Lenin is expelled from Kazan University after student protest
20 May 1887 Russian Empire Lenin Alexander Ulyanov is executed for a plot against the tsar
22 April 1870 Russian Empire Lenin Vladimir Ulyanov is born in Simbirsk