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Decree on Press and Land

27th October 1917

Formation of the Sovnarkom

27th October 1917

Vikzhel demand for formation of coalition socialist government

29th October 1917

Kerensky’s attempted counter-revolution

30th October 1917

Battle of Pulkovo Heights

31st October 1917

Sovnarkom rejection of Vikzhel’s demands

1st November 1917

Kamenev and other Bolsheviks commissars resignation in protest

1st November 1917

Moscow under control

2nd November 1917

Decree on Peace

8th November 1917

Decree on Abolishing Class

10th November 1917

Elections for the Constituent Assembly

12th November 1917

Workers’ Control Decree

14th November 1917

Creation of People’s Courts

25th November 1917

Kadet party banned and leaders arrested

28th November 1917

Ceasefire with Germany

2nd December 1917

Vesenkha

2nd December 1917

Creation of Cheka

7th December 1917

Decree of Nationalisation of Banks

14th December 1917

Generals Alekseev and Kornilov founding the Volunteer Army

Late December 1917

Assassination attempt on Lenin

1st January 1918

Constituent Assembly convened

5th January 1918

Constiuent Assembly dissolved

6th January 1918

Third All-Russian Congress

8th January 1918

Foreign debts annulled

21st January 1918

Germany army resumes offensive

18th February 1918

‘The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger!’ Decree

21st February 1918

New treaty terms from Germany

22nd February 1918

Founding of the Red Army

23rd February 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed

3rd March 1918

Left SRs withdraw from the Sovnarkom

15th March 1918

Fourth All-Russian Congress

15th March 1918

Formal recognition of State Capitalism as economic policy

April 1918

Kornilov killed

13th April 1918

Czech Legion overthrows Soviet authorities

22nd May 1918

Czech Legion occupies Samara

8th June 1918

Decree on Kombedy

11th June 1918

Right SRs and Mensheviks expelled from soviets

14th June 1918

The Kuban Offensive

22nd June 1918

Decree on Nationalisation

28th June 1918

Beginning of War Communism

28th June 1918

Left SRs expelled from soviets

9th July 1918

Romanovs murdered

17th July 1918

Fifth Congress of Soviets

19th July 1918

British and America troops land in Vladivostok and Archangel

2-4th August 1918

Assassination of Petrograd Cheka chief

30th August 1918

Assassination attempt on Lenin (take 2)

30th August 1918

Decree on Red Terror

5th September 1918

End of WW1

11th November 1918

Renunciation of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

13th November 1918

Kolchak overthrows Provisional All-Russian Government (Komuch)

18th November 1918

Decree on the Abolition of Private Trade

21st November 1918

Grain requisitioning squads begin prodrazverstka

January 1919

Beginning of Kolchak’s campaigns

4th March 1919

Decree on ‘Forced Labour Camps’

11th April 1919

Yudenich campaign against Petrograd

May 1919

State Bank prints more money to induce hyperinflation

15th May 1919

Green uprising in Ukraine

4th June 1919

Yudenich campaign against Petrograd (take 2)

November 1919

Polish-Soviet War

26th April 1920

More Green resistance in Tambov Province by Alexander Antov

August 1920

Armstice signed between Polish and Soviet governments

12th October 1920

Mass strikes in Moscow and Petrograd

February 1921

Kronstadt calls for ‘Soviets without Communists’

1st March 1921

Red Army attack on Kronstadt

7th March 1921

Tenth Congress

8-16th March 1921

NEP introduced

8th March 1921

Red Army captures Kronstadt

17th March 1921

Treaty of Riga

18th March 1921

Russian Famine

June 1921-1922

Cheka renamed as GPU

6th February 1922

Deportation of Soviet intellectuals

May-September 1922

American aid accepted by the Bolsheviks

around June 1922

Lenin’s death

21st January 1924