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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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| 1918 March 3 |
| | | At Brest-Litovsk Lenin signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria, ceding vast territories and valuable resources | |
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| 1918 March 10 |
| | | Lenin moves the capital of Russia from Petrograd back to Moscow | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Civil war enables the Bolsheviks to impose a rigid system of state control on the Russian economy, through War Communism and Food Brigades | |
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| 1919 January I |
| | | The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Communist uprising in the Ruhr is suppressed with difficulty by the German army | |
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