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Nationalization

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

14Records
1917–1918Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1917

Lvov25 March 1917

Moscow · Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The Provisional Government introduces state monopoly on the grain trade

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin8 November 1917

Petrograd · Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The Bolshevik land decree abolishes private landed property and transfers land to peasant use

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin14 December 1917

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The Red Guard occupies private banks & a decree is passed to nationalize them

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin20 December 1917

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The Vesenkha gains control over Government finance of industry & wages state wages

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninDecember 1917

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The Vesenkha decrees each region establish a Council of National Economy (Sovnarkhoz)

1918

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin20 January 1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Church property is confiscated & all religious instruction in the schools abolished

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninJanuary 1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The 3rd All-Russian Congress proclaims factories, mines & transport state property. The Merchant Fleet is taken over by decree

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninMay 1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

The sugar industry is nationalized. The oil industry is nationalized

Mikhail Larin28 June 1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Nationalization begins after Larin convinces Lenin to protect it from German control

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin28 June 1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Issues a decree nationalizing all major areas of industry

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin28 June 1918

Moscow · Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Issues the decree nationalising large-scale industry during War Communism

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin8 October 1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Shops are closed & their inventory used for barter with the peasants. All domestic trade is nationalized

Mikhail Larin1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Appointed Architect of Socialist construction & nationalization

Mikhail Larin1918

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Plans the nationalization of stores & the confiscation of their merchandise

Names involved

LvovMikhail LarinVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

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