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| 1886 | Birth Russia Kirov, Sergei Mironovich |  |
| Birth of Sergei Mironovich Kirov |
| 1903 | Bolshevik Party Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Wants the SDP to be a vanguard party |
| 1903 | Bolshevik Party Russia Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Helps Lenin in forming the Bolshevik Group within the Social Democratic Party |
| 1903 | Bolshevik Party Stalin Russia Stalin, Joseph | |
| Appointed Member of the Bolsheviks |
| 1903 | Bolshevik Party Voroshilov Russia Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Appointed Member of the Bolshevik Party |
| 1905 | Chairman Lugansk Soviet Russia Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Lugansk Appointed Chairman of the Lugansk Soviet, 1st term |
| 1906 | Arrest Russia Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Arrested & jailed for 1 yr |
| 1906 | Bolshevik Party Bukharin Russia Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Appointed Member of the Bolshevik Party |
| 1906 | Bolshevik Party Russia Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| Appointed Organizer of the Bolshevik Party |
| 1908 | Arrest Russia Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Lugansk Arrested & forced into exile, 1908-1917 |
| 1909 | Arrest Russia Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Placed under arrest |
| 1911 | Exile of Bukharin Russia Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| June Arkhangelsk Exiled to the Arkhangelsk region |
| Aug Arkhangelsk Escapes from exikle & returns to Russia during the February revolution |
| 1912 | Arrest Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 6th Aug Cracow Released by the Austrians because he is an "enemy of tsarism" |
| 26th July Arrested by the Austrian police as a spy & enemy alien |
| 1912 | Arrest Russia Zinoviev, Grigori | |
| 6th Aug Cracow Released by the Austrians because he is an "enemy of tsarism" |
| 26th July Arrested by the Austrian police as a spy & enemy alien |
| 1912 | Bolshevik Party Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| The Bolshevik Party formally separated from the Social Democratic Party |
| The final split between the Bolsheviks & Mensheviks |
| Cracow Spends 2 yrs in Cracow |
| 19th Aug Vienna Leaves Vienna bound for Switzerland in an Austrian military mail train |
| 1912 | Exile of Zinoviev Russia Zinoviev, Grigori | |
| Sep Vienna Leaves Vienna bound for Switzerland in an Austrian military mail train |
| 1912 | Man of Steel Russia Stalin, Joseph | |
| 5th May Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili took the name Stalin, meaning "man of steel" |
| 1913 | Bolshevik Caucus Russia Malinovsky, Roman | |
| Instructed by Lenin to split the SDP delegation in the Duma & form a Bolshevik Caucus |
| 6 Bolshevik deputies demand 7 Menshevik deputies accept Lenin's programme |
| The Menshevik's turn down Lenin's programe & find a leader in Malinovsky |
| 1914 | Arrest Russia Kamenev, Lev Borisovich | |
| Arrested after supervising publication of Pravda for 1 yr |
| 1915 | Central Workers Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Nov The Central Workers ' Group is formed |
| 4th Sep Zimmerwald On the eve of the conference Lenin organizes a group of socialist internationalists, the Zimmerwald Left |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald Calls for open civil war & the organization of a new revolutionary international |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald Calls for "peace without indemnities & without annexations" |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald Calls for the "self determination of peoples" |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald Lenin appeals to all soldiers to lay down their arms |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald Opening day of a Conference of European anti-war Socialists |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald The "internationalists" open their Conference in Switzerland |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald 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 |
| 1915 | Exile of Kamenev Russia Kamenev, Lev Borisovich | |
| Exiled to Siberia, 1915-1917 |
| 1915 | Second International Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald 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 |
| 1916 | Conference of Kienthal Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| April Kienthal Opening of the Kienthal Conference of anti-war socialists |
| 1916 | Editor Russia Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| New York Appointed Editor of Novy Mir |
| 1916 | Second International Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 5th Sep Zimmerwald The Second International dissolves during World War I, in 1916, following the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists |
| 1917 | Bolshevik Party Bagirov Russia Bagirov, Mir Dzhafar Abassovich | |
| Baku Appointed Member of the Bolshevik Party in Baku |
| 1917 | Chairman Lugansk Soviet Russia Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Lugansk Appointed Chairman of the Lugansk Soviet, 2nd term |
| 1917 | Exile of Bukharin Russia Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| May Moscow Returns to Moscow via Japan & Siberia |
| 1917 | Exile of Kirov Russia Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| Siberia In exile during the February Revolution |
| 1917 | Manifesto Bolshevik Party Russia Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| 26th Feb Includes proposals for a Constituent Assembly & universal male suffrage |
| 26th Feb Submits a draft manifesto to the Russian bureau of Central Committee |
| 1919 | Bolshevik Party Chuikov Russia Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Member of the Bolshevik Party |
| 1919 | Cheka Russia DzerzhinskII, Feliks Edmundovich | |
| 17th Feb Announces changes in running the Cheka |
| 1919 | CLO Russia Trotsky, Leon | |
| 27th Dec The CLO begins the "militarization of labour" |
| 27th Dec The Commission on Labour Obligation is created by Trotsky |
| 16th Dec Drafts "Theses" for the Central Committee advocating disciplined armies of workers |
| 27th Dec Persuades Lenin to create a Commission on Labor Obligation with Trotsky as President |
| 1919 | Reform Russia DzerzhinskII, Feliks Edmundovich | |
| 17th Feb Announces changes in running the Cheka |
| 1920 | Second International Russia Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| The defunct Second International is reorganized |
