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| 1900 |
| | | Lenin and comrades launch in Munich a radical newspaper, Iskra ('the spark') | |
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| 1902 |
| | | In his pamphlet What is to be done? Lenin argues for early action to promote revolution | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Lenin's supporters become known as the Bolsheviks ('majority') as opposed to the Mensheviks ('minority') after a split at the party's Second Congress | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history | |
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| 1912 |
| | | At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader | |
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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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