Today in Bolshevik History
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Civil Rights - Communism - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Trotskyism - Women's Suffrage
Related Topics: Soviet Union
Historical Events
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1907-03-24 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1907-06-26 - Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
1917-04-16 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1917-10-25 - In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seizes power
1917-11-06 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1917-12-15 - World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
1918-03-09 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918-08-17 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1919-06-06 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1945-04-30 - Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
2004-05-16 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2006-10-28 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.
Famous Birthdays
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1870-04-22 - Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist
1881-05-04 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
1886-03-27 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1888-03-24 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
Famous Deaths
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1922-05-04 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
