1. Lenin and Great October
HST 332: Age of Dictators, Europe

2. Suggested reading Richard Pipes, Russia under the Bolshevik Regime.
Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin.
Martin E. Malia, The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia,

3. The young radical 1870 22 April Born 1886 24 January Ilya Ulyanov dies
1887
20 May
Alexander Ulyanov is hanged
25 August
Lenin enters Kazan University
17 December
Arrested in student protest
1891
November
Passes law exam at St. Petersburg University
1892
Defense lawyer in Samara
1895
May-Sept.
Visits Plekhanov abroad
21 December
Arrested in St. Petersburg
1897
10 February
Exiled for 3 years to Siberia
1898
March
RSDLP founded in Minsk
22 July
Lenin marries Nadezhda Krupskaya

4. Lenin in exile 1900 10 February Siberian exile ends 29 July
Leaves Russia for western Europe
1902
March
Publishes “What is to be Done”
April-May
Lenin in London
1903
August
Second congress of RSDLP in Brussels & London, formation of Bolshevik faction
1904
9 February
Russo-Japanese War begins
14 March
Lenin resigns from RSDLP central committee
1905
22 January
“Bloody Sunday”
Third congress of RSDLP in London
26 October
St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies formed by Trotsky.
21 November
Lenin arrives in St. Petersburg
16 December
St. Petersburg Soviet arrested
21 December
Bolshevik uprising in Moscow crushed by army

5. What Lenin learned from 1905
soviets were effective as an alternate governing body and source of legitimacy.
workers and urbanites alone could not overthrow autocracy. It would be necessary to enlist the peasantry in the Revolution.

6. Creating the Bolshevik Party
1906
April-May
Fourth congress of RSDLP in Stockholm
1907
January-April
Lenin resides in Finland
April-June
Fifth Congress of RSDLP in London
December
Lenin takes up residence in Switzerland
1908
Lenin moves to Paris
1912
June
Lenin moves to Cracow, Austrian Poland
1914
30 July
Russia mobilizes
8 August
Lenin arrested in Cracow as Russian spy
September
Lenin leaves Austria for Zurich, Switzerland
1915
Zimmerwald Conference of anti-war socialists

7. The October Revolution
Conflict among Lenin’s followers.
The coup.
Where was Stalin?

8. The Constituent Assembly\

9. How did Lenin win? Small, tightly organized party Popular program
Land, Bread, Peace
Absolute ruthlessness