Lenin | Timeline

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism. (Intro from Wikipedia)

April 22, 1870 - Simbirsk (today Ulyanovsk), Russian empire - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is born
April 28, 1870 - Simbirsk - Vladimir is baptized
August 28, 1879 - Simbirsk - Vladimir is accepted into Simbirsk classical Gymnasium
January 24, 1886 - Simbirsk - Vladimir's father, Ilya Ulyanov, dies of brain haemorrhage. He renounces his belief in God
March 13, 1886 - While in Simbirsk - His brother Alexander, a conspirator against the Monarchy, is arrested for participating in an attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander III
May 20, 1886 - While in Simbirsk - His brother Alexander is executed by hanging
August 25, 1887 - Kazan - Vladimir enrolls at Kazan University
December 16, 1887 - Kazan - Already a representative elected of the the University's "zemlyachestvo council" (a society of men living away from their home regions), he takes part in a demonstration against government restrictions that banned student societies =(START)
December 17, 1887 - Kazan - He is arrested and expelled from the University
December 19, 1887 - Lenino-Kokushkino (E. of Kazan) - Vladimir is exiled from Kazan to the village of Lenino-Kokushkino
October 1(?), 1888 - Kazan - Vladimir is authorized to return to Kazan. He begins reading Marx
May 15, 1889 - Alakayevka (near Samara) - Vladimir moves to the near village of Alakayevka
October 23, 1889 - Samara - The Ulyanov family moves to Samara. Vladimir embraces marxism in Alexei Sklyarenko's socialist discussion circle
May 29, 1890 - Samara - Maria Ulyanova persuades the authorities to allow Vladimir to take his exams externally at the University of Saint-Petersburg. He obtains the equivalent of a first-class degree with honours
September(?) 1(?), 1890 - Saint-Petersburg - Visits Saint-Petersburg in connection with his examinations at the city's University
November 5, 1890 - Saint-Petersburg - Vladimir departs to Samara
April 24, 1891 - Saint-Petersburg - Examinations at the Law Faculty of Saint-Petersburg University
May 29, 1891 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs to Samara
July(?) 1(?), 1891 - Samara - Returns to Samara
September 28, 1891 - Saint-Petersburg - Last of the examinations at Saint-Petersburg University
November 24, 1891 - Samara - Returns to Samara
January 26, 1892 - Samara - Vladimir receives a University graduation diploma, first Class
February 11, 1892 - Samara - He enters on the rolls of Junior Barristers
August 4, 1892 - Samara - Vladimir Ulyanov is granted the right to practise Law
September(?) 1(?), 1893 - Nizhny Novgorod - Stops at Nizhny-Novgorod on his way to Saint-Petersburg
September 12, 1893 - Saint-Petersburg - Vladimir arrives in Saint-Petersburg
September 15, 1893 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is registered as Junior Barrister to M.F.Wolkenstein
December(?) 1(?), 1893 - Saint-Petersburg - Vladimir Ulyanov becomes the leader of the Saint-Petersburg marxists
January 1(?), 1894 - Moscow - He travels to Moscow in the beginning of January
June 26, 1894 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs to Moscow
August(?) 1(?), 1894 - Samara - Summer with relatives in Samara
September 8, 1894 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg (from Moscow)
December(?) 1(?), 1894 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov leads a marxist worker's circle and begins a relationship with Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya, a marxist schoolteacher
May 7, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs to Switzerland to establish contact with the Emancipation of Labour group
May 15(?), 1895 - Geneva, Switzerland - Meets members of the Emancipation of Labour group
July(?) 1(?), 1895 - Paris, France - Living in Paris. Ulyanov becomes acquainted with Paul Lafargue
July(?) 15(?), 1895 - Switzerland - Ulyanov takes a cure for tuberculosis of the stomach at a swiss sanatorium
August 3, 1895 - Niederbarnim, Berlin - Attens a Social-Democratic meeting. He studies for 6 weeks at the Staatsbibliothek, meeting the marxist activist Wilhelm Liebknecht
September 19, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg with illegal marxist literature
September(?) 25(?), 1895 - Vilnius | Moscow | Orekhovo-Zuyevo - Visits to Vilnius, Moscow and Orekhovo-Zuyevo to establish contacts with local social-democratic circles
October 11, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg

"Lenin", police mugshot 1895

December 20, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov and five others are arrested when the police raids one of their houses and seizes the first issue of their new newspaper "Rabocheye Delo"
January 2, 1896 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is interrogated in prison
August 1(?), 1896 - Saint-Petersburg - Nadya is arrested for organizing a strike and sentenced to exile in Ufa
February 10, 1897 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is sentenced to 3 years' exile in eastern Siberia
March 1, 1897 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs for exile in Siberia, via Moscow
March 2, 1897 - Moscow - Allowed to stay 4 days with his mother in Moscow
March 16, 1897 - Krasnoyarsk - Ulyanov arrives in Krasnoyarsk
May 12, 1897 - Krasnoyarsk - Departs from Krasnoyarsk for Shushenskoye
May 20, 1897 - Shushenskoye, Krasnoyarsk Kai, Central Siberia - Ulyanov arrives in Shushenskoye. Nadya joins him there
October 9, 1897 - Minusinsk - Travels to Minusinsk to make the acquaintance of exiled members of the Narodnaya Volya and Narodnoye Pravo
October 11, 1897 - Tesinskoye - Spends 5 days with exiled social-democrats at Tesinskoye
May 18, 1898 - Minusinsk - Ulyanov arrives in Minusinsk
June 1(?), 1898 - Minusinsk - Ulyanov and Nadya depart from Shushenskoye for Minusinsk
July 22, 1898 - Shushenskoye - Ulyanov and Nadezhda Krupskaya are married
September 23, 1898 - Krasnoyarsk - Ulyanov travels to Krasnoyarsk
January 5, 1899 - Minusinsk - Ulyanov and Krupskaya attend a meeting of exiled marxists in Minusinsk
April 5, 1899 - While in Shushenskoye - "The Development of Capitalism" is published, under the signature of "Vladimir Ilyn"
May 14, 1899 - Shushenskoye - Ulyanov's house is searched by the police and he is interrogated
February 10, 1900 - Shushenskoye - Ulyanov's terms of exile end. He and Nadya depart to western Russia. Forbidden to live in the metropolitan cities, university towns and industrial centers, Lenin chooses Pskov
February 15(?), 1900 - Ufa - Ulyanov and Nadya reach Ufa, where she has to stay to complete her term of exile
March(?) 1(?), 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Illegal visit to Saint-Petersburg, evading police surveillance
March 10, 1900 - Pskov - Ulyanov arrives in Pskov
May 18, 1900 - Pskov - Obtains a passport to travel to Germany
June 2, 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Illegal visit to Saint-Petersburg
June 3, 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is arrested and interrogated
June 13, 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Released from prison
June 14, 1900 - Podolsk - Ulyanov travels to Podolsk, near Moscow, to live with relatives
June 20, 1900 - Podolsk - Ulyanov travels to meet Nadya in Ufa, via Nizhny Novgorod
June 21, 1900 - Nizhny Novgorod - Meeting with social-democrats in Nizhny Novgorod
July 15, 1900 - Ufa - Departs to Podolsk
July 23, 1900 - Podolsk - Returns to Podolsk
July 29, 1900 - Podolsk - Departs to Switzerland
August 5(?), 1900 - Zurich, Switzerland - Arrives in Zurich
August 24, 1900 - Corsier, near Geneva - Attends a conference with the Emancipation of Labour group
September 6, 1900 - Nuremberg | Munich - Travels from Nuremberg to Munich
December 14, 1900 - Leipzig - Travels to Leipzig to prepare the first issue of "Iskra" for printing
December 24, 1900 - While in Munich - First issue of "Iskra" is published
February 15(?), 1901 - Prague | Vienna - Ulyanov travels to Prague and Vienna to arrange for Nadya to go abroad
December 1(?), 1901 - Munich - Vladimir Ulyanov adopts the "nom de guerre" of "LENIN"
February 15(?), 1902 - Munich - "What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement" is published in Stuttgart. Vladimir Ulyanov signs for the first time as "Lenin"
April 15(?), 1902 - London - Lenin and Nadya move to London with "Iskra" under the name of Dr and Mrs Jacob Richter, becoming friends with Leon Trotsky
April 29, 1902 - London - Lenin enters the British Library for the first time
June 25(?), 1902 - Paris - Participates of a meeting of russian political emigrés in Paris
July(?) 1(?), 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Summer Holidays with his mother and sister Anyuta in Loguivy
July 12, 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Letter to G.V. Plekhanov
July 16, 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Letter to Nadya in London
July 24, 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Letter sent from Loguivy
November 29, 1902 - London - Speech on "the programmes and tactics of the socialist-Revolutionaries" at Liberty Hall, Whitechapel
February 4, 1903 - London - Letter to his mother in Samara
March 1(?), 1903 - London - Lenin decides that Trotsky should not return to Russia but stay abroad and be co-opted on the editorial board of "Iskra"
March 2, 1903 - London - Letter to Plekhanov
March 21, 1903 - London - Speaks at a meeting to commemorate the anniversary of the Paris Commune at the New Alexandra Hall
April 29, 1903 - England - Lenin leaves England
May 1(?), 1903 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin and Nadya move the "Iskra" management to Geneva
July 30, 1903 - Brussels - First session of the 2nd congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
August 11, 1903 - London - The 2nd Congress of the RSDLP moves to London
August 24, 1903 - London - After the congress, Lenin leads a group of bolsheviks to Highgate Cemetery to visit the grave of Karl Marx
November 17, 1903 - London - The party splits into two irreconcilable factions: the bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks, headed by Julius Martov
May 1(?), 1904 - Geneva, Switzerland - Publishes the anti-menshevik tract "One step forward, two steps back"
June(?) 1(?), 1904 - Switzerland - Hiking holiday in Switzerland to recuperate from illness
January 3, 1905 - While in Geneva - A strike breaks out at the Putilov Works in Saint Petersburg
January 7, 1905 - While in Geneva - The strike in Saint Petersburg grows into a general strike with 140,000 strikers
January 9, 1905 - While in Geneva - Bloody Sunday - Father Georgi Gapon leads a peaceful procession of citizens through the streets to the Winter Palace to beseech the Tsar for food and relief from the oppressive government. The Palace Guard fires on the peaceful demonstration, resulting in the deaths of some 1,000 demonstrators
April 12, 1905 - London - The 3rd RSDLP congress begins
May 10, 1905 - London - The 3rd RSDLP congress ends
July 1(?), 1905 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin publishes "Two tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution"
October 7, 1905 - While in Geneva - The railway workers of the Moscow–Kazan Railway go out on strike
November 1(?), 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg

Stalin and Lenin, 1905

December 12, 1905 - Tammerfors (Tampere, Finland) - Lenin meets Dzhugashvili (Stalin) for the first time in a meeting with bolshevik leaders
December 17, 1905 - Tammerfors (Tampere, Finland) - End of the meeting with bolshevik leaders, including Dzhugashvili
April 23, 1906 - Stockholm, Sweden - The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party begins
May 8, 1906 - Stockholm - The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ends
August 10, 1906 - Kuokkala, Finland (today Repino, Russia) - Lenin receives a visit from Rosa Luxemburg and a meeting takes place with the participation of Bogdanov and other leaders of the Russian revolution
May 13, 1907 - London - Attends the 5th Congress of the RSDLP (until June 1st)
June 1, 1907 - London - End of the congress. Lenin departs from London
July 1(?), 1907 - near Helsinki, Finland - Conference in Finland with Krasin, Bogdanov and the young Kamenev
August 14, 1907 - Berlin - Letter to Maxim Gorky in Capri
August 15, 1907 - Stuttgart - Arrives in Stuttgart
August 18, 1907 - Stuttgart, Germany - The International Socialist Congress begins
August 24, 1907 - Stuttgart - The International Socialist Congress end
September(?) 1(?), 1907 - Kuokkala, Finland (today Repino, Russia) - Returns to Kuokkala, Finland
October 1(?), 1907 - Kuokkala - Letter to Karl Hjalmar Branting
November 2, 1907 - Kuokkala - Letter to A.V. Lunacharsky
November 30(?), 1907 - Helsinki, Finland - Lenin leaves Kuokkala and moves to Helsinki when the police begins searching  the vicinity
December 12, 1907 - Nauvo Island, SW of Turku, Finland - To avoid okhrana agents at Turku, Lenin travels to the second stage of the ferry's journey to Stockholm at Nauvo Island. Between Lillmälö island and Nauvo island, he almost dies when the ice breaks beneath his feet
January(?) 1(?), 1908 - Berlin - On the way from Stockholm to Geneva, Lenin and Nadya visit Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin
January 5(?), 1908 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin returns to Geneva, via Berlin
January 27, 1908 - Geneva - Letter to Magnus Nielsen in Oslo
January 30, 1908 - Geneva - Letter to the editors of "Berner Tagwacht"
February(?) 20(?), 1908 - Geneva - Discreet meeting with Stalin
April 23, 1908 - Capri, Italy - Visits Maxim Gorki in Capri

Lenin and Gorki playing chess
Island of Capri, 1908

April 30, 1908 - Capri - Lenin departs to Geneva
May 1, 1908 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin return to Geneva
May 16, 1908 - London - Lenin returns to London to work in the British Library
June 10, 1908 - London - Departs from London
December 1(?), 1908 - Paris - Lenin moves to Paris
May 18, 1909 - Paris - Letter to Rosa Luxemburg
July 19, 1909 - Paris - Letter to his mother
July 1, 1910 - Naples, Italy - Lenin arrives in Naples from Marseille. He visits the city, aswell as Pompeii, with Gorki
July 20(?), 1910 - Pornic, Brittany - Hollidays in Pornic, Brittany
July 28, 1910 - Pornic, Brittany - Letter to his sister Maria in Terijoki, Finland
August 27(?), 1910 - Germany - Lenin, coming from Paris, and Trotsky, coming from Vienna, end up at the same railway station awaiting a connection to Copenhagen. Lenin is furious with Trotsky because of his article on Russian Social Democracy for the newspaper of the german Social Democratic Party "Vorwärts"
August 28, 1910 - Copenhagen, Denmark - The Copenhagen International Socialist Congress begins
September 3, 1910 - Copenhagen - The Copenhagen International Socialist Congress ends
November 8, 1911 - London - Fifth visit to London
November 11, 1911 - London - Lecture on "Stolypin and the Revolution" at the New King's Hall
November 20, 1911 - London - Lenin departs from London
January 5, 1912 - Prague, Austria-Hungary - The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party begins
January 17, 1912 - Prague, Austria-Hungary - The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ends
November(?) 1(?), 1912 - Kraków, Poland - Meeting with Stalin
December(?) 1(?), 1912 - Kraków - Second meeting with Stalin
January 1(?), 1913 - Kraków - Nadya's health begins to decline. After seeing one of the best neurologist it is discovered the was having thyroid trouble
May 1(?), 1913 - Biały Dunajec, Poland-Slovakia border - Lenin and Nadya travel to the Tatra Mountains so she could rest
July(?) 1(?), 1913 - Bern, Switzerland - Lenin and Nadya travel to Bern for Nadya to have a surgery on her goitre
July 10, 1913 - Bern - Nadya undergoes a thyroidectomy (without a general anesthetic) 
August 4, 1913 - Biały Dunajec, Poland-Slovakia border - Lenin and Nadya return to Biały Dunajec
October 6, 1913 - Biały Dunajec - Secret Meeting of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Russia (bolsheviks) (until October 14th)
October 20(?), 1913 - Kraków - Lenin returns to Kraków two weeks later
January 30(?), 1914 - Paris - Lenin travels to Paris in the second half of January to "work in a library"
May 9, 1914 - Biały Dunajec, Poland-Slovakia border - Hiking to Zawrat Mountain Pass and Morskie Oko Lake with Roman Malinowksi
August 5, 1914 - Biały Dunajec - Lenin reads the paper and sees that the german social democrats had capitulated. He declares to Bagocki: "From today I cease to be a social democrat and have become a communist"
August 7, 1914 - Nowy Tag, Poland - Lenin is arrested
August 19, 1914 - Nowy Tag - Lenin leaves Nowy Targ after 12 days in jail
August 27, 1914 - Biały Dunajec - Lenin leaves Biały Dunajec
October 16, 1914 - Bern, Switzerland - Lenin and Nadya move to Bern
March 23, 1915 - Bremgarten, near Zurich - Lenin and Nadya receive the ashes of Nadya's mother, Elizaveta Vasil'evna, and buried them in the Bremgarten cemetery
June 1(?), 1915 - Sörenberg, Switzerland - Lenin, Nadya and Inessa Armand move to the Hotel Marienthal at Sörenberg, in sight of Mount Rothorn
September 2, 1915 - Sörenberg - Lenin and Inessa Armand leave Nadya at the hotel to travel to the Zimmerwald Conference
September 5, 1915 - Zimmerwald, Switzerland - Attends the Zimmerwald Conference (until September 9th)
February 1(?), 1916 - Zurich - Relocates to Zurich
April 24, 1916 - Kienthal, Switzerland - Attends the Kienthal Conference (until April 30th)
December 28, 1916 - Bern - Lenin takes a train to Bern
December 29, 1916 - Zurich - Returns to Zurich
January 22, 1917 - Zurich - Lecture on the 1905 Revolution
March 28, 1917 - Frankfurt, Germany - Lenin reaches Frankfurt by train, on his way from Geneva back to Russia
March 29, 1917 - Berlin - The train reaches Berlin
April 12, 1917 - Trelleborg | Malmö, Sweden - Lenin arrives in Trelleborg, Sweden. Then proceeds to Malmö
April 13, 1917 - Stockholm, Sweden - Lenin arrives in Stockholm from Germany, via Malmö
April 15, 1917 - Tornio, Finnish Lapland - Lenin passes Haparanda and crosses the Sweden-Finland(then Russia) border at Tornio

Lenin returns to Petrograd, 1917

April 16, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin returns to Russia. Stalin welcomes him at Petrograd's Finland Station (Saint-Petersburg had been renamed Petrograd on September 1, 1914)
April 29, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin comes first in the Bolshevik elections for the party's Central Committee
June 24, 1917 - Petrograd - Stalin threatens to resign when Lenin turns against the idea of an armed demonstration when the Soviet refused to support it
July 18, 1917 - Petrograd - Loyalist troops raid "Pravda" and surround the Bolshevik headquarters. Stalin helps Lenin evade capture minutes before and, to avoid a bloodbath, orders the besieged Bolsheviks in the Peter and Paul Fortress to surrender
October 10, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin returns to Petrograd and at a meeting, secures a majority in favour of a coup
October 23, 1917 - Petrograd - The Central Committee voted 10-2 in favor of an insurrection; Kamenev and Zinoviev vote in opposition
October 25, 1917 - Petrograd - In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joins Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup—the October Revolution—was being directed. Armed Bolshevik militia had seized Petrograd's electric power station, main post office, state bank, telephone exchange, and several bridges. A Bolshevik-controlled ship, the "Aurora", sails up to the Winter Palace, and opens fire, with the assembled delegates of the Provisional Government surrendering and being arrested by the Bolsheviks
October 26, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin declares himself Chairman of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom)
November 15, 1917 - Petrograd - The Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia is promulgated by the Bolshevik government and signed by Lenin and Stalin
December 7, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin's government forms the "Cheka", a political police force
December 15, 1917 - Petrograd - An armistice between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers is concluded
December 22, 1917 - While in Petrograd - Peace negotiations begin in Brest-Litovsk
February 10, 1918 - Petrograd - Lenin withraws from the talks, refusing to sign on Germany's harsh terms
February 18, 1918 - While in Petrograd - Germany resumes military operations against. Lenin is forced to send a radiogram accepting the final Brest-Litovsk peace terms. Trotsky abstains
March 3, 1918 - While in Petrograd - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - End of Russia's participation in the War
March 10(?), 1918 - Moscow - Lenin moves the Soviet Government to the Kremlin in Moscow
May 1, 1918 - Moscow - Attends the May Day parade in Moscow
July 17, 1918 - While in Moscow - Former Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra and their 5 children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei are brutally assassinated by bolsheviks in their captivity in Yekaterinburg
August 30, 1918 - Moscow - Lenin survives a second assassination attempt but is badly injured. One bullet strikes his arm and a second his jaw and neck
September 1(?), 1918 - Gorki - Moves to the Gorki estate, outside Moscow, acquired for him by the government
March 3, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins in Moscow
March 23, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
May 5, 1920 - Moscow - At Sverdlov Square, Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev motivate the

Lenin motivates the troops to fight
on the Soviet-Polish War, 1920

troops to fight on the Soviet-Polish War
March 8, 1921 - Moscow - The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins
March 16, 1921 - Moscow - The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
March 1(?), 1922 - Gorki(?) - Physicians prescribe rest for Lenin's fatigue and headaches
March 27, 1922 - Moscow - The 11th Communist Party Congress begins
April 2, 1922 - Moscow - The 11th Communist Party Congress ends - Stalin is nominated as the party's new General Secretary
April 24, 1922 - Gorki(?) - A german surgeon removes the bullet retained in Lenin's neck after the 1918 assassination attempt
May 25, 1922 - Petrograd - After returning to Petrograd, Lenin suffers a massive stroke that leaves him partially paralysed and unable to speek for weeks
June 30(?), 1922 - Gorki(?) - By the end of June, Lenin recovers
August 1(?), 1922 - Gorki(?) - Resumes limited duties

Lenin and Stalin, Gorki, 1922

September 2, 1922 - Gorki - Lenin and Stalin are photographed by Maria Ulyanova at Lenin's dacha in Gorki
September 11, 1922 - Gorki(?) - Lenin proposes that Trotsky become his deputy at the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom). The Politburo approves the proposal but Trotsky refuses
November 1(?), 1922 - Moscow(?) - Lenin delivers 3 long speeches in November
December 8, 1922 - Moscow - Lenin suffers a second stroke which partly paralyzes his right side. He withraws from active politics
December 30, 1922 - Gorki - While recovering at home, the First All-Union Congress of Soviets declares the creation of the Soviet Union
December 31, 1922 - Gorki - Unable to attend the congress, and not trusting Stalin to implement his thoughts, Lenin dictates a letter with his thoughts on the nationality question in a document to be passed on to the party leadership, titled "On the question of Nationalities or Autonomization". He attacks Stalin's policies on the subject and criticizes the rights provided to the republics by the Union treaty, deeming them inadequate to stop the rise of Great Russian nationalism, which he referred as "great-power chauvinism"

Lenin's embalmed body. Today

January 1(?), 1923 - Gorki - Amends his testament to suggest that Stalin should be removed as the party's general secretary
March 6, 1923 - Gorki - Lenin dictates a note of encouragement to georgian bolsheviks against Stalin
March 9, 1923 - Gorki - Lenin suffers a third stroke. He looses his ability to speak and is bedridden until his death
January 21, 1924 - Gorki - Lenin falls into a coma and dies, aged 53 =(END)