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Vladimir Lenin
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1917
November
07
Key event
The October Revolution
On 7 November 1917 Lenin's Bolsheviks took Petrograd almost unopposed and toppled the Provisional Government. The road to civil war and the USSR began.
1919
March
02
The founding of the Comintern
On 2 March 1919 communists from many countries met in the Kremlin. On 4 March they founded the Third International to build a world republic of soviets.
1921
July
13
The Russian famine
On 13 July 1921 Maxim Gorky appealed to the world to save starving Russia. The Volga famine, caused by drought and requisitions, killed an estimated 5 million.
1924
January
21
The death of Lenin
On 21 January 1924 Lenin died at Gorki near Moscow. His body was placed in a mausoleum, and a struggle for power began in the party, which Stalin won.