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Bolshevik Party

Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

15Records
1917–1936Date range
8Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1917

Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky17 July 1917

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Kerensky orders the arrest of Lenin and the other leading Bolsheviks, accusing them of inciting revolt with German financial backing

1919

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin1919

Government / Government of Russia

During this early period, known as 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 is to export the October Revolution

Maxim Maximovich Litvinov1919

Government / Government of Russia

Publishes the English tract The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning, distributed by the British Socialist Party

1921

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin28 February 1921

Kronstadt · Government / Government of Russia

An anti-bolshevik rebellion breaks out among Kronstadt sailors

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninJuly 1921

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

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin1921

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

1922

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bazarov1922

Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Member of Gosplan, a non-Bolshevik

Lev Borisovich Kamenev1922

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Decides SRs are guilty of trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks in 1919

1923

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin9 March 1923

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Retires from the leadership of the Bolshevik Party after a stroke

1927

Leon Trotsky12 November 1927

Government / Government of Russia

When the United Opposition tried to organize demonstrations commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1927, the demonstrators were dispersed by force and Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the Communist Party

1930

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bazarov1930

Government / Government of Russia

Arrested with other non-Bolsheviks

1936

Lev Borisovich KamenevAugust 1936

Government / Government of Russia

During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership

Leon TrotskyAugust 1936

Government / Government of Russia

During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership

Grigory Yevseyevich ZinovievAugust 1936

Government / Government of Russia

During the trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 other accused, most of them prominent Old Bolsheviks, confessed to having plotted with Trotsky to kill Stalin and other members of the Soviet leadership

Joseph Stalin1936

Government / Government of Russia

Holds stage trials of old Bolsheviks

Names involved

Alexander Fedorovich KerenskyGrigory Yevseyevich ZinovievJoseph StalinLeon TrotskyLev Borisovich KamenevMaxim Maximovich LitvinovVladimir Aleksandrovich BazarovVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Provenance

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