Timeline Wednesday 7 November 1917

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• 1917 – 1924 Lenin leads Soviet Russia October Revolution to death — 1917 to 1924 Lenin led Soviet Russia from the October Revolution on November 7, 1917, and the Soviet Union from its formation in December 1922 until his death on January 21, 1924. He established the one-party Bolshevik state and the foundations of Soviet communism.
• 1917 Russian Revolution Invokes Marxism Marxist theory put into revolutionary practice The Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution of October 1917, guided by Vladimir Lenin's adaptation of Marxist theory, established the world's first self-declared Marxist state and marked the beginning of Marxism-Leninism as a global political force. The revolution demonstrated the enormous 20th-century impact of Marx's ideas, decades after his death, reshaping global geopolitics for the rest of the century.
• 1917 The October Revolution Petrograd, Russia The Bolsheviks seized power, promising peace, land and bread. Russia's exit from the war freed fifty German divisions for the Western Front — and set the century's other great course.