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Bolshevik Party

Russia · Politics / Bolshevik Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

40Records
1886–1920Date range
14Named people
10Places

Chronological records

1886

Sergei Mironovich Kirov1886

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Birth of Sergei Mironovich Kirov

1903

Klimenty Efremovich VoroshilovAugust 1903

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party

Joseph Stalin1903

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Member of Bolsheviks

1905

Kliment Yefremovich VoroshilovAugust 1905

Lugansk · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Chairman of the Lugansk Soviet, 1st term

1906

Nikolai Bukharin1906

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party

Sergei Mironovich Kirov1906

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Arrested & jailed for 1 yr

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov1906

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Organizer of the Bolshevik Party

1908

Klimenty Efremovich VoroshilovAugust 1908

Lugansk · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Arrested & forced into exile, 1908-1917

1909

Nikolai Bukharin1909

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Placed under arrest

1911

Nikolai BukharinJune 1911

Arkhangelsk · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Exiled to the Arkhangelsk region

Nikolai BukharinAugust 1911

Arkhangelsk · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Escapes from exikle & returns to Russia during the February revolution

1912

Joseph Stalin5 May 1912

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili took the name Stalin, meaning "man of steel"

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin26 July 1912

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Arrested by the Austrian police as a spy & enemy alien

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev26 July 1912

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Arrested by the Austrian police as a spy & enemy alien

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin6 August 1912

Cracow · Politics / Bolshevik Party

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

Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev6 August 1912

Cracow · Politics / Bolshevik Party

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

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin19 August 1912

Vienna · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Leaves Vienna bound for Switzerland in an Austrian military mail train

Grigory Yevseyevich ZinovievSeptember 1912

Vienna · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Leaves Vienna bound for Switzerland in an Austrian military mail train

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin1912

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The final split between the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks. The Bolshevik Party formally separated from the Social Democratic Party

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin1912

Cracow · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Spends 2 yrs in Cracow

1913

Roman Malinovsky1913

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The Mensheviks turn down Lenins programe & find a leader in Malinovsky. 6 Bolshevik deputies demand 7 Menshevik deputies accept Lenins programme

1914

Lev Borisovich Kamenev1914

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Arrested after supervising publication of Pravda for 1 yr

1915

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin4 September 1915

Zimmerwald · Politics / Bolshevik Party

On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin5 September 1915

Zimmerwald · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Lenin appeals to all soldiers to lay down their arms. Calls for the "self determination of peoples". Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations". Calls for open civil war & the organisation of a new revolutionary international

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin5 September 1915

Zimmerwald · Politics / Bolshevik Party

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists. The "internationalists" open their Conference in Switzerland. Opening day of a Conference of European anti-war Socialists.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin5 September 1915

Zimmerwald · Politics / Bolshevik Party

The Zimmerwald Conference sees the beginning of the end of the coalition between left-wing socialists (communists) and right-wing socialists (social democrats) in the Second International.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninNovember 1915

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The Central Workers Group is formed

Lev Borisovich Kamenev1915

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Exiled to Siberia, 1915-1917

1916

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninApril 1916

Kienthal · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Opening of the Kienthal Conference of anti-war socialists

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin5 September 1916

Zimmerwald · Politics / Bolshevik Party

The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

Nikolai Bukharin1916

New York · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Editor of Novy Mir

1917

Nikolai BukharinMay 1917

Moscow · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Returns to Moscow via Japan & Siberia

Klimenty Efremovich VoroshilovAugust 1917

Lugansk · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Chairman of the Lugansk Soviet, 2nd term

Mir Dzhafar Abassovich Bagirov1917

Baku · Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party in Baku

Sergei Mironovich Kirov1917

Siberia · Politics / Bolshevik Party

In exile during the February Revolution

1919

Feliks Edmundovich DzerzhinskII17 February 1919

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Announces changes in running the Cheka

Leon Trotsky16 December 1919

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Drafts "Theses" for the Central Committee advocating disciplined armies of workers

Leon Trotsky27 December 1919

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The Commission on Labour Obligation is created by Trotsky. The CLO begins the "militarization of labour". Persuades Lenin to create a Commission on Labor Obligation with Trotsky as President

Vassili Chuikov1919

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party

1920

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin1920

Politics / Bolshevik Party

The defunct Second International is reorganized

Names involved

Feliks Edmundovich DzerzhinskIIGrigory Yevseyevich ZinovievJoseph StalinKliment Yefremovich VoroshilovKlimenty Efremovich VoroshilovLeon TrotskyLev Borisovich KamenevMir Dzhafar Abassovich BagirovNikolai BukharinRoman MalinovskySergei Mironovich KirovVassili ChuikovVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninVyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov

Provenance

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