Omsk Coup
Kolchak takes supreme power after a coup removes the Ufa Directory's authority in Siberia.
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Explore 308 historical events and records for Russia in 1918.
Historical records for Russia in 1918
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November
Supreme Ruler Proclaimed
Kolchak accepts the title Supreme Ruler and assumes leadership of the principal eastern White government.
Workers Committees
Issues a decree establishing Workers Committee's in enterprises with 5 or more workers
Council of Workers and Peasants Defence
Lenin chairs the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defence created to coordinate the Soviet war effort.
Exile of Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich
Esacapes to Finland
December
Committees of Poor Peasants Abolished
The Soviet government ends the separate Committees of Poor Peasants and merges their functions into local soviets.
Capture of Valuiki
The Red Army occupies Valuiki
Red Army
The Red Army occupies Valuiki
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Negotiates an armistice with the Germans but refuses their terms
Capture of Dvinsk
The Red Army occupies Dvinsk
Red Army
The Red Army occupies Dvinsk
Capture of Minsk
The Red Army occupies Minsk
Conscription
A Labour Code providing for males & females between 16 & 50 to render "labor service"
Red Army
The Red Army occupies Minsk
Soviet Labour Code
The Soviet government adopts a labour code regulating compulsory labour obligations and employment under the new state system.
Birth of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Birth of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Other events (month unknown)
Allied Intervention Debate
Argues that intervention should support Russian democracy.
Anti-Bolshevik Campaign
Krasnov cooperates with other anti-Bolshevik forces during the struggle against Soviet rule.
Arrest of Maxim Maximovich Litvinov
Signed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Latvia and Estonia, in which those countries promise not to use force to settle their disputes (this was seen as an Eastern Kellogg-Briand Pact)
Arrest of Nicolai Avksentyev
The Chairman of the Alln Soviet of Peasant Deputies is arrested. Bolsheviks arrest SR Party members elected to the Constituent Assembly
Bolshevik Party
Bolsheviks arrest SR Party members elected to the Constituent Assembly
Bolshevik Party
Tried by a Bolshevik Revolutionary Tribunal & executed for being an Okhrana informer
Central Statistical Administration
Appointed Head of the Central Statistical Administration
Chairman
Appointed Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy
Chairman
Appointed Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy
Communist Party
Appointed Member of Communist Party
Communist Party
Appointed Member of Communist Party
Constitution of Russia
The Congress of Soviets cede their primacy of power to the Government
Cossack Army Operations
Krasnov expands military organisation among Cossack communities resisting Soviet control.
Death of Roman Malinovsky
Tried by a Bolshevik Revolutionary Tribunal & executed for being an Okhrana informer
Declaration of Death Penalty
Orders the death penalty for "bagmen" of foodstuffs
Don Cossack Forces
Krasnov commands anti-Bolshevik Cossack forces during the opening stages of the civil conflict.
Don Cossack Government
Krasnov establishes a Cossack administration in the Don region opposed to the Bolshevik government.
Don Cossack Government
Krasnov becomes a leading figure among Don Cossacks opposing Bolshevik authority after returning to the region.
Don Cossack Government
Krasnov organises military forces among the Don Cossacks during the early Russian Civil War.
Don Military Authority
Krasnov maintains military authority over the Don Cossack region during the civil war.
Escape from Russia
Escapes Bolshevik-controlled Russia during the civil war.
Escape into Exile
Leaves Russia after the Bolshevik victory and begins a long period of exile opposing communist rule.
Execution
Tried by a Bolshevik Revolutionary Tribunal & executed for being an Okhrana informer
Exile of Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky
Advocates Allied support for democratic forces in Russia.
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