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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin Biography and Timeline — Page 12

Follow Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin through 499 dated historical records for Russia.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1920

Supreme Economic Council

Chairman of Council Commissars · Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

The Supreme Economic Council runs 37,000 businesses with a workforce of 2 million

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Bolshevik Party

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The defunct Second International is reorganized

International, 2nd

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The defunct Second International is reorganized

1921

Economy of Russia

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

With the ongoing turn to a market-based system of production as part of the New Economic Policy (NEP), very real constraints exist on the possible extent of central planning during the initial phase of Gosplan

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Gosplan

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

Gosplan is formally established by a Sovnarkom decree.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Gosplan

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

Initially Gosplan has an advisery function, with its entire staff consisting of just 34 people selected on the basis of academic expertise in specialized aspects of industry. just 7 are members of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Gosplan

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

With the ongoing turn to a market-based system of production as part of the New Economic Policy (NEP), very real constraints exist on the possible extent of central planning during the initial phase of Gosplan.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Bolshevik Party

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kronstadt · Government / Government of Russia

An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Rebellion of anti-bolshevik

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kronstadt · Government / Government of Russia

An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Bolshevik Party

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kronstadt · Revolution / Revolution of Russia

An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors

Role range: 1917-1918

Rebellion of anti-bolshevik

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kronstadt · Revolution / Revolution of Russia

An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors

Role range: 1917-1918

Economy of Russia

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The State Planning Commission, GOSPLAN, is founded. Early in February 1921 the Politburo unanimously voted for Vladimir Lenins proposal of ending the forced requisitioning of grain

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

GOSPLAN

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The State Planning Commission, GOSPLAN, is founded which publishes economic statistics

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Kronstadt Rebellion

Bolshevik Leader · Moscow · Revolution / Kronstadt Rebellion

Sees the revolt as a grave threat during the civil war crisis.

Role range: 1917-1922 – 1917-1924

Kronstadt Rebellion

Bolshevik Leader · Moscow · Revolution / Kronstadt Rebellion

Argues at the party congress that the revolt must be defeated.

Role range: 1917-1922 – 1917-1924

Kronstadt Rebellion

Bolshevik Leader · Moscow · Revolution / Kronstadt Rebellion

Links the revolt to the wider crisis facing Soviet power.

Role range: 1917-1922 – 1917-1924

Pact between Russia and Turkey

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kars · Government / Government of Russia

Under a pact between Russia & Turkey the Kars region becomes part of Turkey

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Rule of Kars

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kars · Government / Government of Russia

Under a pact between Russia & Turkey the Kars region becomes part of Turkey

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Trade Agreement

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

An agreement is made to resume Anglo-Soviet trade relations

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Under a pact between Russia & Turkey the Kars region becomes part

Chairman of Council Commissars · Kars · Government / Government of Russia

Under a pact between Russia & Turkey the Kars region becomes part of Turkey

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Kronstadt Rebellion

Bolshevik Leader · Moscow · Revolution / Kronstadt Rebellion

Uses the crisis to justify tighter party discipline.

Role range: 1917-1922 – 1917-1924

Bolshevik Party

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The "First Period" in Comintern history, with the Bolshevik revolution under attack in the Russian Civil War and a wave of revolutions across Europe, the Cominterns priority was exporting the October Revolution

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Comintern

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

Third Congress, held in June-July 1921, talked about how the struggle could be transformed into "civil war" when the circumstances were favorable and "openly revolutionary uprisings". The "First Period" in Comintern history, with the Bolshevik revolution under attack in the Russian Civil War and a wave of revolutions across Europe, the Cominterns priority was exporting the October Revolution

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

League of Nations

Chairman of Council Commissars · Moscow · Warfare / League of Nations

The League of Nations rejects Russia's membership

Role range: 1917-1924

Independence of Crimea

Chairman of Council Commissars · Crimea · Government / Government of Russia

Crimea is granted its independence

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Independence of Russia

Chairman of Council Commissars · Crimea · Government / Government of Russia

Crimea is granted its independence

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Bolshevik Party

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The "First Period" in Comintern history, with the Bolshevik revolution under attack in the Russian Civil War and a wave of revolutions across Europe, the Cominterns priority was exporting the October Revolution. At the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the economic policy known as the New Economic Policy, often abbreviated to NEP, was approved

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

CCC

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The Central Control Comm is to rid the party of "careerists" & "bourgeois elements"

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Comintern

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The "First Period" in Comintern history, with the Bolshevik revolution under attack in the Russian Civil War and a wave of revolutions across Europe, the Cominterns priority was exporting the October Revolution.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Comintern

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The Comintern is behind the "March Action" in Germany, including an attempt to dynamite the express train from Halle to Leipzig.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Comintern

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

Third Congress, held in June-July 1921, talked about how the struggle could be transformed into "civil war" when the circumstances were favorable and "openly revolutionary uprisings."

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Constitution of Russia

Chairman of Council Commissars · Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Power is ceded from the Government to the Politburo

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Economy of Russia

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The State Planning Commission, GOSPLAN, is founded. Early in February 1921 the Politburo unanimously voted for Vladimir Lenins proposal of ending the forced requisitioning of grain. At the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the economic policy known as the New Economic Policy, often abbreviated to NEP, was approved

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Gosplan

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan becomes the agency responsible for central economic planning and remaining in existence until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the main task of Gosplan is the creation and administration of a series of five-year plans governing the economy of the USSR

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

March Action

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

The Comintern is behind the "March Action" in Germany, including an attempt to dynamite the express train from Halle to Leipzig

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

New Economic Policy

Chairman of Council Commissars · Government / Government of Russia

At the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the economic policy known as the New Economic Policy, often abbreviated to NEP, was approved

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

New Economic Policy

Chairman of Council Commissars · Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Trade is legalized & by the mid 1920s GDP is restored to the levels of 1913. The NEP is introduced after the failure of War Communism. The economy is controlled by the state. Light industry & agriculture reverts to private ownership

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Treaty of Riga

Chairman of Council Commissars · Riga · Government / Government of Russia

Under the Treaty of Riga Russia gains the eastern third of Poland

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

New Economic Policy

Chairman of Council Commissars · Warfare / Military

Peasant unrest sweeps Russia, the risings are suppressed but the New Economic Policy is proclaimed that gives the peasants the right to sell their grain surpluses

Role range: 1917-1924

1922

New Economic Policy

Chairman of Council Commissars · Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Relaxes the NEP at the 10th Party Congress after peasant disturbances

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1917-1924

Records, sources and methodology

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