The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20
Events in Life
of Lenin

April 2, 1s70-v I. Ulyanov GerEm
born in Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk,
capital city Of province Of same
name. His father, I. N. Ulyanov, was
head Of the public schools Of the
province.
May 20, Execution Of Alex
ander, Lenin's older brother, for par
tio.pation in the attempt on the life
Of Gar Alexander III.
August IS, 1e37-Matriculates 1t
Law Faculty of Kazan University.
Dec. IT, l3e7-Arrested with 40
other students Of Ka2an University
cor participation in an illegal meet
ing.
Dec. 10, i887-Expelled from the
university and banished to live in a
village with his grandfather.
Feb, 1889-Continues his theoreti-
cal studies Of MarXism and lectures
to youth circles Of Samara to which
his family moved. Petitions Ministry
Of Education for permission to take
law examination, which is refused.
The minister marked the petition ito
enquire from educational and police
authorities. He is a bad man"
1893-WriteS first work, New Eco
ncmic Tendencies in Peasant Life"
1894-Actively participates in So
cial-democratic organization. Joins
propagandist group. Teaches In
workers circles
May-September, 1895 Leaves for
Switzerland to establish connections
with the group Liberation of Toil."
November, 1895-Upon return to
Russia, heads central social-demo-
cratic organization in Petersburg.
leads in the agitation and propa-
ganda among factory workers. writes
leaflets, contributes articles and
writes pamphlet dealing with fines
enforced upon workers.
Dec. 20, 1895-Arrested in st. Pc
tersburg.
Feb. 10, 1897 -Exiled TO Siberia for
three years.
July %, 1ssS-N. K. Krupskaya and
LenEn are married.
Feb. IL, 190O-Ends exile and re-
turns to European Russia.
June 3, 1s00-Arrested in st. Pc
tersburg, but released after ten days.
July %. 1o0o-Leaves for Germany
to begin publication in Munich Of
first revolutionary Marxist periodical,
the "Iskra."
July to August. i903-Participates
at Second Congress- Of Social-Demo-
cratic Party, where the split between
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks took
place, with Lerfn as leader of the
former.
Nov. 20, l9O5-patrrrs f. O. D.
-ersburg during the first Russian
Revolution.
August, 1914-Outbreak Of war
finds Lenin in Galicia, where he had
gone to be nearer to Russia. Arrested
and deported.
April l6, 19l7-Arrives in Petrograd
and Is received at the station by
large delegations of workers and SOL
diers.
April-May, 1917-Attends Bolshe-
vik Conference, at which his pro-
cram and policies regarding the Rus
sian Revolution are accepted.
November, 1917-Lives in hid
ing, moving from place to place, but
keeps in constant touch with Bolshe-
vik leaders. Writes for the Party
press and to the Central Committee
urging preparation for armed upris-
ing.
Nov. s, l9l7-ReturnS disguised to
Smolnv Institute HEADQUARTERS Of
the Bolshevik Party, and assumes de
rect leadership of final preparations
for armed uprising.
Nov. z, 1917-Kerensky government
overthrown, and power passes into
the hands of the Soviets. Soviet gov
eminent organized with Lenin as
chairman of Council of Peoples
Ccmmissars.
August 30, 19l8-Attempt on his
life made by merrber Of the Social
: st-Revcluticnary Party. The wound
inflicted by revolver shot, although
serious, hsaled and Lenin was able to
return to wcr,-.
March 2, 1919-ODens First Con-
r~ass of Cc-,-'-'+or0.
December 191o-First Illness.
May 26, 1922-Partial paralytie
stt-oke.
Nov. 10, 1922-Recove~s sufficiently
. be able to address Fourth Congress
f the Communist International.
Jan. Ri, 1924-V. I. Lerfn. the
'ounder of the first Soviet State and
he Communist International, and
- greatest teacher of the worlds
orkers since Marx and Engels, died
at Cork near Moscow.