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Tag: Russian Revolution

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12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

12th November 2019
Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Kamenev, Lenin, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Trotsky, USSR, Zinoviev

Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

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7th November 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution

7th November 2019
Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Lenin, Revolution, Russia, Russian Revolution, Trotsky, Tsar, USSR

On the 7^th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.

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20th December 1917: Cheka established by the Bolsheviks

20th December 2018
Tagged as: Cheka, Lenin, Russia, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union, Terror

On the 20^th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was established.

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17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

17th November 2018
Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Lenin, Marxism, Menshevik, Russia, Russian Revolution

The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.

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16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

16th April 2018
Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Exile, Finland, First World War, Germany, Lenin, Nicholas II, Politics, Provisional Government, Revolution, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Switzerland

Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.

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