By Dmitri Volkogonov
ISBN-10: 0029334357
ISBN-13: 9780029334355
The designated assistant to Boris Yeltsin greatly alters the conventional picture of Lenin with a biography in response to mystery Soviet documents, revealing the Founding Father as a merciless, totalitarian chief who used to be chargeable for the worst excesses of the Soviet nation.
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14 March Lenin resigns from Party Central Committee. 1905 22 January ‘Bloody Sunday’ in St Petersburg. 23 January Strikes begin throughout Russia. 25 April-10 May Third Congress of RSDLP in London. 27 May Russian fleet sunk in Straits of Tsushima, off Japan. June Mutiny on battleship Potemkin in Black Sea. 15-July Vyacheslav Plehve, Minister of Interior, assassinated in St Petersburg. 5 September Russo-Japanese Treaty of Portsmouth, USA. mid-October General strike in Russia. 25 October Constitutional Democratic party (Kadets) formed.
1900 10 Febuary Lenin's exile ends. March Arrives in St Petersburg. 3 June Arrested for ten days. 20 June Visits Krupskaya in exile in Ufa. 29 July Leaves Russia for Western Europe. 1901 Winter Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) founded. 1902 March Lenin's What is to Be Done? published. April-May Lenin in London. 1903 30 July-23 August Second Congress of RSDLP in Brussels and London. Bolshevik-Menshevik split. December Lenin resigns from Iskra. 1904 9 February Russo-Japanese war breaks out. 14 March Lenin resigns from Party Central Committee.
1870 22 April Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) born. 1879 7 November Lev Davydovich Bronshtein (Trotsky) born. 21 December Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Stalin) born. 1880 January Georgy Plekhanov flees Russia for Western Europe. 1881 13 March Tsar Alexander II assassinated. 1883 September Plekhanov forms Marxist ‘Emancipation of Labour Group’ in Geneva. 1886 24 January Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov (Lenin's father) dies. 1887 20 May Alexander Ulyanov (Lenin's brother) hanged. 25 August Lenin enters Kazan University.
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