Defending the Bolshevik revolution October 1917 - 1924 Key dates

November 1917

Constituent assembly elections take place

January 1918

Constituent assembly meets but Lenin dissolves it at gunpoint

1918 - 1920

c. 300 000 put to death by the Cheka

30 August 1918

Fanny Kaplan shoots Lenin in the neck

1917

Cheka established

1917

Vesenkha set up

1917

Workers take control of factories

1921

c.150 000 employed by the Cheka

3 March 1918

Russia at Peace

1918 - 1920

Russian civil war

1920

Bolsheviks fail to invade Poland

1918

c. 200 000 foreign troops inside Russia (British troops enter Southern Russia + British and French navy enter black sea and Baltic sea)

1919

Japan + US occupy parts of Siberia

1920

Western powers withdrew from Russia

1920

c. 400 000 Prolecult members

1920

workers under military discipline

April - August 1922

Political parties outlawed and most of Moscow clergy were humiliated on public trial and imprisoned

1920 - 1921

Tambov uprising

1921

Kronstadt uprising

1917 - 1918

State capitalism

1918 - 1921

War Communism

March 1921

The New Economic Policy announced by Lenin at the 10th Party Congress

1924

Soviet economy makes recovery

1924

c.300 forced labour camps established by Cheka

1919

poor harvest resulted in c.250 000 troops deserting a month

1920

1/3 of red troops contracted typhus

1918

Red army made up of c.1million men

1920

over 5million men in red army

1922

The Prolekult movement had been largely disbanded

1922

Russia is a one party state

1921

emergence of nepmen

1923

Bolshevik party membership shrunk to 500 000

1924

Soviet Union becomes an Oligarchy

1921

c. 5000 Mensheviks arrested for counter revolutionary activities

1922

Cheka renamed the GPI (Main political administration) and arbitrary imprisonment and death penalty continued to be applied

1922

Orders sent to strip churches of precious items. Death penalties issued to leaders and thousands of priests imprisoned. violent clashes broke out when the people tried to protect their churches

1922

censorship becomes stricter

August 1918

After a failed assassination attempt against lenin the “red terror” was unleashed. c. 15 000 executed by the Cheka

1920

Antonov has a guerilla army of c. 20 000

1922

Antonov killed in an exchange of gunfire