7 January 1902StrikeGeorge Gapon
Organizes a major industrial strike
Historical records for Russia in 1902, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Organizes a major industrial strike
Birth of Georgi Maksimilanovich Malenkov
Sets out the argument for a disciplined revolutionary organisation.
Publishes What Is to Be Done?, setting out his vanguard party argument.
Assassination of Dimitri Sergeevich Sipiagin
Death of Dimitri Sergeevich Sipiagin, assassinated
Appointed Minister of the Interior
Assassinated by a student from Kiev University who had been expelled
Death of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, assassinated
Helps arrange Iskra printing at Clerkenwell Green in London.
Questions policies that risk conflict over Manchuria.
Supports railway and financial interests linked to Manchuria.
Prepares programme drafts debated before the Second Congress.
An earthquake kills 2000
Escapes to London from Siberia
Continues directing industry and commerce through the Finance Ministry.
Begins working with Lenin, Plekhanov, Martov and other Russian Social Democrats around the émigré newspaper Iskra.
Works in London as Iskra develops party organisation abroad.
Appointed Minister of the Interior, 2nd term
Appointed Editor of The Liberation a liberal fortnightly publication in Germany
A student rebellion takes place at Moscow University
A student rebellion takes place at Moscow University
Attempts to make the Zemstva a branch of the Ministry of Interior
Appointed Member of RSDP, after meeting Lenin for the 1st time
Helps found the Social Revolutionary Party
Escapes Siberian exile using papers bearing the name Trotsky, the surname he thereafter uses publicly.
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