Vladimir Lenin: Timeline

1870   Born

1917   Lenin Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known to the world as Vladimir Lenin , was the founder of Russian ... 

 arrives in Petrograd.

1917   October Revolution begins: The workers of St. Petersburg in Russia Russia

Russia , also the Russian Federation , is a country [i] that stretches over a vast expanse of Eurasia [i] ... 

, led by the Bolsheviks and the Bolshevik Bolshevik

Bolsheviks were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist [i] Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party [i] ... 

 leader Vladimir Lenin, attacked the ineffective Kerensky Provisional Government (Russia was still using the Julian Calendar Julian calendar

The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC [i] by Julius Caesar [i] and took force in 45 BC [i] . ... 

 at the time, so period references show an October 25 date). The Soviets of Workers, Farmers and Soldiers took control of the economy and the administration of a country for the first time in history.

1923   Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , more commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a Communist state [i] ... 

 government.

1924   Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin , alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin, was the de facto [i] ... 

 begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.

1924   Died