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Birth of Vladmir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin, in Simbirsk, Russia
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Vladmir Ilyich Lenin's Life
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Vladimir's father dies.
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Vladimir's older brother Alexander executed for his involvement in a failed plot to kill Csar Alexander III.
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Vladimir Ilyich enrolls in Kazan University. In December he is arrested for participating in student protests and is expelled.
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Gains license to practice law.
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Vladimir Ilyich is exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia.
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Vladimir marries M.K. Krupskaya.
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Siberian exile ends. Vladimir Ilyich settles in Pskov.
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Vladimir Ilyich leaves Russia for Europe to begin publishing activities. Vladimir settles in Munich in September.
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First issue of Vladimir Ilyich’s paper, Iskra, is published.
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Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. Revolution of 1905 begins.
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Lenin settles in Geneva.
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Germany declares war on Russia. WWI begins.
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Czar Nicholas II resigns position. The Provisional Government is formed in Russia.
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Lenin and his party arrive in Petrograd after transiting Germany in a sealed train.
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Lenin publishes the April Theses, calling for the overthrow of the Provisional Government ,and redefining Bolshevik tactics.
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The Soviet Government is formed, with Lenin as Chairman, thus becoming leader of Russia.
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Lenin closes the Constituent Assembly.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends hostilities with Germany.
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Lenin and the Soviet Government move to Moscow.
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Fanny Kaplan attempts assassination of Lenin. Lenin is wounded.
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Lenin suffers his first stroke.
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Lenin’s makes his last public speech.
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Lenin suffers his second stroke.
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It is ordered that Lenin is kept in isolation.
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Lenin writes his last document; Better Fewer, But Better, on the reorganisation and reduction in size of the Soviet government.
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Lenin suffers his third stroke, and is no longer able to speak.
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Lenin is emoved to a Party sanitorium at Gorki.
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Lenin dies from his fourth stroke.
