# Vladimir Lenin - Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

URL: https://history-russia.com/rulers/vladimir-lenin
Reign: 1917 - 1924
Born-Died: 1870 - 1924
Dynasty: Soviet Leadership
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin

Lenin led the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and headed the Soviet government through the Civil War, War Communism and the New Economic Policy.

## Succession
- Preceded by: [Alexander Kerensky](https://history-russia.com/rulers/alexander-kerensky)
- Succeeded by: [Joseph Stalin](https://history-russia.com/rulers/joseph-stalin)

## Timeline events during this reign
- 1917 - [February Revolution](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1917-february-revolution)
- 1917 - [Lenin returns: the April Theses](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1917-lenin-returns-the-april-theses)
- 1917 - [July Days and Kerensky's government](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1917-july-days-and-kerensky-s-government)
- 1917 - [Kornilov affair](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1917-kornilov-affair)
- 1917 - [October Revolution](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1917-october-revolution)
- 1917 - [The Cheka is created](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1917-the-cheka-is-created)
- 1918 - [Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1918-dissolution-of-the-constituent-assembly)
- 1918 - [Treaty of Brest-Litovsk](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1918-treaty-of-brest-litovsk)
- 1918 - [Moscow becomes the capital again](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1918-moscow-becomes-the-capital-again)
- 1918 - [Russian Civil War begins](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1918-russian-civil-war-begins)
- 1918 - [Murder of the Romanov family](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1918-murder-of-the-romanov-family)
- 1918 - [The Red Terror](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1918-the-red-terror)
- 1919 - [Founding of the Comintern](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1919-founding-of-the-comintern)
- 1919 - [White offensives on Moscow](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1919-white-offensives-on-moscow)
- 1920 - [Battle of Warsaw](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1920-battle-of-warsaw)
- 1920 - [Evacuation of Crimea](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1920-evacuation-of-crimea)
- 1921 - [Kronstadt rebellion and the NEP](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1921-kronstadt-rebellion-and-the-nep)
- 1921 - [Famine of 1921-1922](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1921-famine-of-1921-1922)
- 1922 - [Stalin General Secretary; Treaty of Rapallo](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1922-stalin-general-secretary-treaty-of-rapallo)
- 1922 - [Creation of the USSR](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1922-creation-of-the-ussr)
- 1924 - [Death of Lenin](https://history-russia.com/timeline/1924-death-of-lenin)