Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Biography

Attends the party congress as a Bolshevik organiser.

Is co-opted into the Bolshevik Central Committee after Prague.

Writes on nationality policy for the Bolshevik current.

Returns to Petrograd and works on Pravda.

Returns from Siberia and resumes Bolshevik organisation in Petrograd.

Returns from Siberia and works with Bolsheviks in Petrograd.

Returns from exile and enters Bolshevik work around the Soviet.

Helps manage Bolshevik press and party activity during the crisis.

Works to keep party communications functioning during the unrest.

Helps arrange Lenin's movement to safety.

Helps decide that Lenin should not surrender to the authorities.

Takes part in efforts to keep the Bolshevik organisation intact.

Bolsheviks support resistance to Kornilov while continuing to oppose the political programme of Kerensky's government.

Bolsheviks gain influence by helping resist Kornilov.

Bolshevik organisers gain greater freedom to mobilise workers and soldiers for the defence of Petrograd.

The party presents Kornilov's action as evidence that counter-revolutionary forces threaten the gains of February.

Bolshevik activists help organise resistance while railway workers and soldiers obstruct the advance toward Petrograd.

The crisis allows Bolshevik organisers to rebuild influence among workers after the repression following the July Days.

Bolshevik political influence grows as Kornilov's forces lose momentum and the immediate threat to Petrograd recedes.

The failure of Kornilov strengthens Bolshevik claims that revolutionary organisations successfully defended the capital.

The party's standing rises sharply after the affair, weakening moderate socialist influence among workers and soldiers.

Bolshevik propaganda portrays the Kornilov episode as proof that the revolution remains threatened by military counter-revolution.

Bolshevik supporters use the aftermath of the crisis to press for greater influence in the Petrograd Soviet.

Works within the party as Trotsky leads the Soviet.

Attends the first meeting of the committee.

Supports Bolshevik work inside the Petrograd Soviet before the uprising.

Stalin participates in Bolshevik organisation connected with the Petrograd Soviet.

Takes part in the first meeting of the Petrograd Soviet's Military Revolutionary Committee.

Bolshevik organisers support defence measures as Krasnov's forces threaten Petrograd.

Backs the party line against the Kronstadt revolt.

Death of Joseph Stalin