r2 dates

27 October 1917

Decrees on Land, Peace & Sovnarkom

27 October 1917

Decree on the Press

29 October 1917

Decree on Eight Hour Working Day

2 November 1917

Decree on Self-Determination for minorities

2 November 1917

Milrevcom troops gain control of Moscow

10 November 1917

Decree Abolishing Titles, Ranks & Estates

12 November 1917

Elections for Constituent Assembly

14 November 1917

Decree on Workers’ Control

20 November 1917

Red Guards get control of State Bank funds

22 November 1917

People’s Courts replace criminal justice system

23 November 1917

Decree on Private Ownership

28 November 1917

Kadet Party banned, leaders arrested

2 December 1917

Armistice with Germany; ceasefire

7 December 1917

Formation of CHEKA under Dzerzhinsky

9 December 1917

Some Lefts SRs admitted to Sovnarkom

16 December 1917

Decree on Election of Officers in the Army

16–19 December 1917

Decrees civil marriage, divorce, ‘illegitimate’ birth

5–6 January 1918

CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

6 January 1918

Red Guards shut down Constituent Assembly

21 January 1918

Russia cancels foreign debt

January 1918

Julian→Gregorian calendar (skips 13 days→to 14 February)

February 1918

Cheka given power of arrest and execution

18 February 1918

German offensive to within 160km of Petrograd

21 February 1918

Socialist Fatherland in Danger Decree

23 February 1918

Red Army formed

3 March 1918

TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK

March 1918

Trotsky Commissar of War

March 1918

Capital moved Petrograd→Moscow

8 March 1918

Bolshevik Party name change→Russian Communist Party

19 March 1918

Left SRs resign from Sovnarkom over Treaty of B-L

April 1918

Formal recognition of STATE CAPITALISM as Soviet policy

13 April 1918

General Kornilov killed; Denikin takes over White Army in southwest

May 1918

Czech Legion joins anti-Bolshevik forces

13 May 1918

Decree on Food Supply = grain requisitioning WAR COMMUNISM

29 May 1918

Conscription for Red Army

June 1918

Death penalty for cowardice/desertion in Red Army

11 June 1918

Committees of the Poor (‘kombedy’) introduced

8 June 1918

SR Komuch Govt formed at Samara (backed by Czech Legion)

14 June 1918

Mensheviks and Right SRs expelled from Soviet

28 June 1918

Decree on Nationalisation WAR COMMUNISM

July 1918

Class-based food rationing

6 July 1918

Left SR uprising put down in Moscow

9 July 1918

Left SRs expelled from Soviet

17 July 1918

Tsar and Romanov family killed

2–4 August 1918

US & British troops land at Vladivostok & Archangel

11 August 1918

Lenin’s Hanging Order

30 August 1918

LENIN SHOT (& Cheka official Uritsky assassinated)

5 September 1918

DECREE ON RED TERROR

7 October 1918

Red Army defeats Komuch’s ‘People’s Army’ at Samara

13 November 1918

Sovnarkom renounces Treaty of B-L obligations

18 November 1918

Kolchak declares self supreme ruler of Russia

21 November 1918

Decree on Abolition of Private Trade WAR COMMUNISM

January 1919

Grain requisitioning squads → countryside, peasant rebellions

February 1919

Ban on SRs annulled

March 1919

Communist (Bolshevik) Party creates Politburo

11 April 1919

Decree on Forced Labour Camps (concentration camps)

April 1919

The first subbotnik (‘Communist Saturday’)

May 1919

Mahkno’s Green rebellion in Ukraine

15 May 1919

Hyperinflation after Sovnarkom orders increase in bank notes

October 1919

General Yudenich’s White forces defeated on outskirts of Petrograd

October 1919

Denikin’s White Army defeated at Orel, 330 km south of Moscow

28 January 1920

General Yudenich arrested

7 February 1920

Admiral Kolchak executed

February 1920

General Miller flees Archangel for Europe

April 1920

Denikin flees Russia, Wrangel takes over in southwest

April 1920

Poland invades Ukraine (Russian territory)

August 1920

Start Antonov’s Green rebellion in Tambov

12–25 August 1920

Battle of Warsaw (Russia humiliated)

August 1920

Peasant insurrection under Antonov in Tambov region

15 October 1920

Kollontai publishes Communism and the Family

November 1920

Wrangel’s army defeated, evacuates via Black sea

December 1920

Tambov: Union of Toiling Peasants manifesto calls for CA & reforms

February 1921

Mass strikes in Moscow and Petrograd

1 March 1921

Kronstadt Manifesto

7–17 March 1921

KRONSTADT REVOLT

8–16 March 1921

10th PARTY CONGRESS (NEP & ban on factions)

16 March 1921

On Party Unity

18 March 1921

Treaty of Riga ends Soviet-Polish War

May 1921

Tambov insurrection suppressed

June–July 1921

Disastrous harvests→FAMINE

July 1921

Maxim Gorky appeals for foreign aid for famine relief

August 1921

Makhno flees Ukraine, last Green rebellion suppressed

August 1921

US famine relief

24 August 1921

Execution poet Nikolai Gumilev

October 1921

Emigration of author Maxim Gorky

6 February 1922

Cheka replaced with GPU (still under Dzerzhinsky)

March 1922

Trade agreement with Great Britain

3 April 1922

Stalin General Secretary of CPSU

26 May 1922

Lenin’s first stroke

May–September 1922

Repression, deportation intellectuals

June 1922

Start SR ‘show trials’

30 December 1922

USSR formed

6 July 1923

GPU renamed OGPU (still under Dzerzhinsky)