![]() July: The writer Maxim Gorky makes a worldwide plea for famine aid, declaring millions of Russian lives to be in danger.Īugust: An American famine relief group agrees to distribute millions of tons of grain in Russia. May: The rebellions in the Tambov are finally suppressed, after a massive injection of Red Army troops into the region. March: Britain signs a bilateral trading agreement with Russia other nations also lift trading blockades. March: Red Army troops enter the streets of Kronstadt and arrest the last rebel sailors. Lenin announces the New Economic Policy (NEP) and demands an end to factionalism in the party. March: The Tenth Party Congress of the Communist Party. They draw up a 15-point list of demands for the national government and ready themselves to fight against a Red Army incursion. January: Alexander Shlyapnikov publishes an article in Pravda, in which he summarises the ideas and perspectives of the Workers’ Opposition.įebruary 28th: Rebellious sailors in Kronstadt meet, vote to form their own soviet and call for “Soviets without Bolsheviks”. January: The Tambov peasant leader, Antonov, now commands a force in excess of 20,000, with which he attacks Bolshevik positions. November: Most major fighting in the Civil War is at concluded, though localised skirmishes and peasant uprisings still continue. November: General Wrangel’s White Army, under siege from the Reds in Crimea, evacuates via the Black Sea. October: The Treaty of Riga brings most fighting in the Russo-Polish War to a halt. September: The death of Inessa Armand, his confidante and possibly his lover, leaves Lenin stricken with grief. June: The autonomous ‘mountain republics’ of Chechnya, Ossetia and Dagestan are overrun by the Red Army.Īugust: The beginning of the peasant insurrection in Tambov by Antonov’s ‘Blue Army’. ![]() March: Yudenich’s White Army is evacuated from Estonia by British shipping.Īpril: Fighting intensifies in Poland, where the Poles drive back the Red Army and reclaim more territory.Īpril: White army commander Denikin passes control to General Wrangel and flees Russia via the Black Sea. 1920įebruary: White army commander Kolchak is captured and executed.įebruary: The Bolshevik government makes an offer of peace to the US but this is rejected. Note: Entries in this Russian Revolution timeline use the Gregorian or New Style calendar, which was adopted by the Soviet government on January 24th 1918. This timeline has been written and compiled by Alpha History authors. This Russian Revolution timeline lists significant events and developments in Soviet-controlled Russia between 19.
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