Lenin – A Brief Life Sketch
April 22, 1870: ·Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin, in the Russian city of Simbirsk.
May 20, 1887: ·Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin's brother, hanged in St. Petersburg.
1888-89 |
| Vladimir Ilyich studies literature of the earlier generations of Russian revolutionaries and begins to study law. Resides in Kazan and Samara. |
1892 | August 4 | Gains license to practice law. |
1893 |
| Becomes active in Marxist study group. Moves to St. Petersburg on September 12. |
1895 |
| Journeys to Europe to meet European and exiled Russian revolutionaries. |
1895 |
| Plans to publish Rabochye Delo, an illegal newspaper, but is arrested in St. Petersburg on December 20. |
1895 | Autumn | League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class is founded in St. Petersburg, with Vladimir Ilyich a member. |
1896 |
| Vladimir Ilyich held by authorities for the entire year. |
1897 | February 10 | Vladimir Ilyich is exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia. |
1898 | March | Founding Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party RSDLP in Minsk. |
1898 | July 22 | Marriage of Vladimir Ilyich to N.K. Krupskaya. |
1899 | April 5-12 | Publication of Vladimir Ilyich’s book, The Development of Capitalism in Russia. |
1900 | February 10 | Siberian exile ends. Vladimir Ilyich settles in Pskov. |
1900 | July 29 | Vladimir Ilyich leaves Russia for Europe to begin publishing activities. Settles in Munich in September. |
1900 | December 24 | First issue of Vladimir Ilyich’s paper, Iskra. |
1901 | May | Krupskaya rejoins Vladimir Ilyich abroad after completing her term of exile in Ufa. |
1901 | December | Uses the pseudonym “Lenin” for the first time. |
1902 | March | Lenin publishes the famous What is to be Done?. |
1903 | April | Lenin moves to London after a brief residence in Geneva. |
1903 | July 30 - August 23 | Second Congress of the RSDLP is held. Party splits into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions. Lenin is separated from Iskra. |
1905 | January | Lenin begins publishing a new paper, Vyperod. |
1905 | January 22 | Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. Revolution of 1905 begins. |
1905 | April 25 - May 10 | Third Congress of the RSDLP. Mensheviks do not attend. |
1905 | June - July | Lenin composes Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. |
1905 | November | Lenin returns to St. Petersburg |
1906 | April 23 - May 8 | Fourth Congress of the RSDLP. Mensheviks participate. Lenin elected to Presidium. |
1907 | January | Lenin moves to Finland on exile |
1907 | August | Stuttgart Congress of the Socialist International. Lenin attends. |
1908 | January 20 | Lenin settles in Geneva. |
1908 | October | Lenin completes his book, Materialism and Empiriocriticism. |
1908 | December | Lenin moves to Paris. |
1908 | January 3-9, 1909 | Fifth Congress of the RSDLP. Lenin again elected to Presidium. |
1910 | August | Lenin attends the Copenhagen Conference of the Second International. |
1911 | Summer | Lenin directs Party school near Paris. |
1912 | January18-30 | Prague Conference. Bolsheviks establish themselves as an autonomous political party. |
1912 | April | First issue of Pravda, published in Russia. |
1914 | August 1 | Germany declares war on Russia. WWI begins. |
1914 | August | Lenin is forced to leave Russia, and emmigrates to Berne, Switzerland. |
1915 | September 5-8 | Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war Socialists. Lenin attends. |
1916 | January - June | Lenin writes Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. |
1916 | February | Moves to Zurich. |
1916 | April 24-30 | Second “Zimmerwald Conference”, held at Kienthal. Lenin a participant. |
1917 | March 12 | Czar Nicholas II abdicates. Provisional Government is formed in Russia. |
1917 | April 16 | Lenin arrives in Petrograd |
1917 | April 17 | Lenin publishes the April Theses, calling for the overthrow of the provisional government and redefining Bolshevik tactics. |
1917 | May | Seventh Congress of the RSDLP Bolsheviks in Petrograd. Lenin takes a prominent role. |
1917 | June 3 - 14 | First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers and Soldiers. |
1917 | July | Uprising known as the “July Days”. |
1917 | July | Lenin is forced into exile; escapes to Finland. |
1917 | August 8-16 | Sixth Congress of the RSDLP. Lenin guided the Congress from underground, taking part in drafting the most important resolutions of the congress. The Congress unanimously elected Lenin its honorary chairman. |
1917 | September | Lenin argues for a new uprising. |
1917 | mid-October | Lenin returns to Petrograd secretly from Finland, and pushes for an immediate insurrection. |
1917 | November 7 | The Soviet government is formed, with Lenin as Chairman. |
1918 | March 3 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends hostilities with Germany. |
1918 | March 10 | Lenin and the Soviet Government move to Moscow. |
1918 | August 30 | Fanny Kaplan attempts assassination of Lenin. Lenin wounded. |
1919 | March 2-6 | Communist International Comintern is founded. |
1921 | February 23 - March 17 | Kronstadt uprising against the Soviet Government. |
1921 | March 17 | Tenth Party Congress. New Economic Policy NEP is begun. |
1922 | May 26 | Lenin suffers his first stroke. |
1922 | November 20 | Lenin’s last public speech. |
1922 | December 15 | Lenin suffers his second stroke. |
1922 | December 24 | Polit Buearu orders that Lenin be kept in isolation. |
1922 | December 30 | Formal establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR. |
1923 | March 2 | Lenin writes his last document; Better Fewer, But Better |
1923 | March 9 | Lenin suffers his third stroke. No longer able to speak. |
1923 | May 12 | Lenin removed to a Party sanitorium at Gorki. |
1924 | January 21 | Lenin dies from fourth stroke. |
January 27, 1924: ·Lenin's embalmed body installed in Red Square mausoleum.
