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| 1917 April |
| | | The German authorities allow Lenin to travel home from Switzerland through Germany, hoping for Communist disruption of the Russian war effort | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | Lenin expounds in Petrograd the new theory of his April Theses, predicting the possibility of imminent revolution | |
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| 1917 July 17 |
| | | An armed uprising in Petrograd disperses after Lenin declines to give support | |
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| 1917 July |
| | | Trotsky is imprisoned and Lenin flees to Finland as Russia's Provisional Government cracks down on the Bolsheviks | |
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| 1917 October |
| | | Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker | |
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| 1917 October 23 |
| | | Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection | |
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| 1917 November 8 |
| | | Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations | |
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| 1917 November 8 |
| | | Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants | |
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| 1918 January I9 |
| | | Lenin dissolves the elected assembly in Petrograd to establish a one-party Soviet state | |
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| 1918 March |
| | | The Bolsheviks, now in power, change their name to the more resounding Russian Communist Party | |
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