Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin Biography and Timeline

League of Struggle

Helps organise the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class.

Role range: 1895-1898 – 1895-1895

Siberian Exile

Is exiled to Siberia after arrest for underground activity.

Role range: 1895-1898 – 1897-1900

Party Founded

Learns of the new party while still in Siberian exile.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1897-1900

The Aims of Russian Social Democrats

Publishes The Aims of Russian Social Democrats, arguing for organised Marxist politics.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1895-1917

The Development of Capitalism in Russia

Publishes The Development of Capitalism in Russia under the name Vladimir Ilyin.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1895-1917

Iskra Founded

Helps launch Iskra as a central paper for Russian Marxists.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1900-1903

Zarya

Uses Zarya and Iskra to argue for centralised revolutionary organisation.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1901-1901

What Is to Be Done?

Sets out the argument for a disciplined revolutionary organisation.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1902-1902

What Is to Be Done?

Publishes What Is to Be Done?, setting out his vanguard party argument.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1895-1917

Second Congress

Attends the Second Congress where party disputes intensify.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1903-1917

Bolshevik Menshevik Split

Wins support for a tighter centralised party organisation.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1903-1917

Bolshevik Party

The Russian party split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

International Socialism

The Russian party split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

International Socialist Congress

The Russian party split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Menshevik Party

The Russian party split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Health of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Suffers from St Anthonys fire

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Publishes a defence of Bolshevik organisation after the split.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1904-1904

Vperyod

Launches Vperyod as a Bolshevik rival to Menshevik-controlled Iskra.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1903-1917

Vperyod

Begins a Bolshevik newspaper after losing control of Iskra.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1904-1905

Bloody Sunday

Interprets the massacre as the opening of revolution.

Role range: 1905-1905 – 1905-1905

Third Congress

Leads Bolshevik delegates at the Third Congress in London.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1905-1905

Third Congress

Leads Bolshevik delegates at the Third Congress.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1905-1905

Two Tactics of Social Democracy

Publishes Two Tactics of Social Democracy during the 1905 Revolution.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1903-1917

Two Tactics of Social Democracy

Publishes his strategy for the democratic revolution.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1903-1917

Return to Russia

Returns from exile during the 1905 Revolution.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1905-1907

Return to Russia

Returns from exile during the revolutionary upheaval.

Role range: 1905-1905 – 1905-1907

Saint Petersburg Soviet

Studies the Soviet as a new form of revolutionary organisation.

Role range: 1905-1905 – 1905-1905

Revolutionaries React to Massacre

Lenin interpreted the events as evidence that mass resistance had entered a new revolutionary stage.

Role range: 1905-1905

Unity Congress

Attends the Fourth Congress, known as the Unity Congress.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1906-1906

Fifth Congress

Attends the Fifth Congress as factional conflict continues.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1907-1907

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

Attacks Bogdanov's philosophy amid Bolshevik factional conflict.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1908-1909

Bolshevik Centre Split

Breaks with Bogdanov's faction inside Bolshevism.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1909-1909

Paris Plenum

Participates in a plenum attempting party reunification.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1910-1910

Longjumeau School

Lectures party workers at the Longjumeau school.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1911-1911

Prague Conference

Organises the conference that creates a distinct Bolshevik party apparatus.

Role range: 1898-1918 – 1912-1912

Arrest of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Arrested by the Austrian police as a spy & enemy alien

Bolshevik Party

Arrested by the Austrian police as a spy & enemy alien

Arrest of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Released by the Austrians because he is an "enemy of tsarism"

Bolshevik Party

Released by the Austrians because he is an "enemy of tsarism"

Bolshevik Party

Leaves Vienna bound for Switzerland in an Austrian military mail train