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Russia in 1924

Historical records for Russia in 1924, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

36Records
31Events
17Named people
4Places
9Categories

Historical records

January

21 January 1924Lenin Death ReactionAlexander Fedorovich Kerensky

Paris · Politics / Exile Politics

Continues anti-Bolshevik commentary after Lenin’s death.

26 January 1924Leningrad RenamingGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Petrograd · Government / Soviet Government

Petrograd is renamed Leningrad after Lenin's death.

28 January 1924BurialVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

A mausoleum is constructed in Red Square where Lenins embalmed body lies in public

January 1924Congress of Communist Party, 13thGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Government / Government of Russia

The Conference, held in January 1924 just before Lenins death, denounced Trotsky and Trotskyism

May

May 1924Congress of Communist Party, 13thLev Borisovich Kamenev

Government / Government of Russia

Zinoviev and Kamenev helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central Committee at the XIIIth Party Congress in May-June 1924 during the first Lenins Testament controversy

May 1924Congress of Communist Party, 13thJospeh Stalin

Government / Government of Russia

Zinoviev and Kamenev helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central Committee at the XIIIth Party Congress in May-June 1924 during the first Lenins Testament controversy

May 1924Congress of Communist Party, 13thGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Government / Government of Russia

Zinoviev and Kamenev helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central Committee at the XIIIth Party Congress in May-June 1924 during the first Lenins Testament controversy

May 1924Lessons of October, an extensive summary of the events of 1917Leon Trotsky

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Trotsky publishes The Lessons of October, an extensive summary of the events of 1917

May 1924The Lessons of October, an extensive summary of the events of 1917Leon Trotsky

Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Trotsky publishes The Lessons of October, an extensive summary of the events of 1917

July

July 1924CominternGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Government / Government of Russia

At the Vth Comintern Congress Zinoviev condemns Marxist philosopher Georg Luk css History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923 after his involvement in B‚la Kuns Hungarian Soviet Republic, and Karl Korschs Marxism and Philosophy

August

20 August 1924October CrisisAlexander Fedorovich Kerensky

Petrograd · Revolution / Revolution of Russia

Kerensky develops his views through october crisis after 1917.

August 1924Commander of MoscowKlimenty Efremovich Voroshilov

Moscow · Warfare / Military

Appointed Commander of the Moscow Military District

October

October 1924RMC-BudennySemyon Mikhaylovich Budenny

Warfare / Military

Appointed Member of Revolutionary Military Council

Other Events

1924AdviserVasily Konstantinovich Blucher

Warfare / Military

Appointed Adviser to the Kuomingtang

1924Against Bureaucracy Progressive and UnprogressiveLeon Trotsky

Politics / Bolshevik Party

Writes Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive while continuing his criticism of administrative degeneration.

1924All-Union Central Executive CommitteeMikhail Ivonovich Kalinin

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Chairman of the All-Union Central Executive Committee

1924ChairmanAleksey Ivanovich Rykov

Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Chairman of the Council of Peoples Commissars. Appointed Chairman of the Communist Party

1924CominternVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Government / Government of Russia

The Mongolian Peoples Revolutionary Party joined Comintern. The Comintern is behind a failed coup in Estonia by the Estonian Communist Party

1924Comintern Policy ShiftJoseph Stalin

Moscow · Politics / International, 3rd

Influences Communist International strategy after Lenin's death

1924Conference of Communist PartyNikolai Bukharin

Government / Government of Russia

The party leadership decide to lower agricultural taxes. The party leadership decide to legalize hiring of labor & leasing of land. Suggests peasants be freed to increase food production

1924Congress of Communist Party, 13thGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Government / Government of Russia

Delivers the Central Committee's reports to the XIIth and XIIIth Party Congresses in 1923 and 1924 respectively, something that Lenin had previously done

1924Constitution of RussiaJoseph Stalin

Government / Government of Russia

Eliminates the opposition of Trotsky, Kamanev, Bukharin & Rykov

1924Economy of RussiaJoseph Stalin

Government / Government of Russia

After Lenins death in 1924, a power struggle between the pro-NEP and anti-NEP escalated eventually into the creation of the first planned economy under Stalin

1924Exile of Vyacheslav Ivanovich IvanovVyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Exiled to Italy

1924First Five Years of the Communist International Volume ILeon Trotsky

Politics / International, 3rd

Publishes the first volume collecting his speeches and writings from the early Communist International.

1924InspectorSemyon Mikhaylovich Budenny

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Inspector of the Cavalry

1924Lenin DeadLeon Trotsky

Government / Government of Russia

Writes Lenin Dead after the death of Vladimir Lenin, assessing his revolutionary leadership and historical significance.

1924Military AdviserVasily Konstantinovich Blyukher

Warfare / Military

Appointedilitary adviser to the revolutionary forces in China

1924Negative Curvature CosmologyAlexander Alexandrovich Friedmann

Leningrad · Science / Cosmology

The achievement marks negative curvature cosmology as an important Russian scientific milestone.

1924New Economic PolicyVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin

Warfare / Military

After Lenins death in 1924, a power struggle between the pro-NEP and anti-NEP escalated eventually into the creation of the first planned economy under Stalin

1924Open Universe ModelAlexander Alexandrovich Friedmann

Leningrad · Science / Cosmology

Publishes a relativistic universe model with constant negative spatial curvature.

1924PolitburoNikolai Bukharin

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Member of Politburo

1924Ruling TriumvirateLev Borisovich Kamenev

Moscow · Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Member of Triumvirate ruling Russia after Lenins death

1924TriumvirateGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Government / Government of Russia

Appointed Member of Triumvirate. Allies with Stalin & Kamanev in forming a ruling triumvirate after the death of Lenin

1924WeYevgeny Zamyatin

Arts / Literature

Publication of "We"

1924Zinoviev LetterGrigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev

Government / Government of Russia

An alleged letter sent to British Communists helps defeat MacDonalds Government

Names involved

Aleksey Ivanovich RykovAlexander Alexandrovich FriedmannAlexander Fedorovich KerenskyGrigory Yevseyevich ZinovievJoseph StalinJospeh StalinKlimenty Efremovich VoroshilovLeon TrotskyLev Borisovich KamenevMikhail Ivonovich KalininNikolai BukharinSemyon Mikhaylovich BudennyVasily Konstantinovich BlucherVasily Konstantinovich BlyukherVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov LeninVyacheslav Ivanovich IvanovYevgeny Zamyatin

Places involved

LeningradMoscowParisPetrograd

Provenance

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