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Manifesto
The Manifesto Of the Communist Party was written by Karl Marx and Frederic Engels declaring: "A specter is haunting Europe, and that specter is Communism." -
Birth
The birth of Josef Stalin in the Georgian village of Tori and christened losif Vissarlovich Dzhugashvili. In 1912, the name Stalin - Man of steel, was given to him by Lenin. -
Birth
Mao Zedong is born in a farm village of Shaman, not far from Changsha, capital city of Human province. -
Split
Split from the 5 year old Russian Social Democrat Labor Party led by Lenin. Then forming the Bolshevik Party. -
The Wobbles
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is funded by the Socialist Party candidate president in 1900 and 1904, Eugene V. Debs. -
Bloody Sunday
The imperial Guard of the absent Czar Nicholas II, toward direction of the grand duke, opens fire on a crowd of several thousand unarmed laborers marching on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to protest mistreatment. -
Published
State and Revolution published by Lenin -
Espionage Act
Espionage Act is passed by congress thus making it illegal to mail literature "advocating or urging treason, insurrection or forcible resistance" to the laws of the United States -
15 members
The October Revolution marks the Bolshevik seizure of power with forces that number no more that 250,000. The 15 member Politburo was formed by Josef Stalin, founding member and an experienced revolutionary activist which is given the post of People's Commissar of Nationalities -
Revolutionary Military Council
Revolutionary Military Council is formed by Lenin -
Sedition Act
Congressed passes the sedition Act, which forbid any "disloyal profane scurrilous or abusive"being either spoken or written about the US government or the Constitution. -
Guilty
Eugene V. Debs is tried in Cleveland and found guilty of violating the Espionage Act. Thus he is sentenced to 2 concurrent 10 year terms, asserting, "While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it: while there is a soul in prison, I am not free" He serves his time in an Atlanta perientiary. even though Attorney General A Micheal Palmer urged President Wilson to grant him Decency. -
Romanov Royal Family
The czar, the empress and their children are shot to death by the Bolshevist's. Their bodies are buried in a forest but their graves are rediscovered in 1922. -
The Comintern
Lenin establishes The Comintern, the Third Communist International. Its mandate is to coordinate Communist activity worldwide via decree from Moscow -
General Intelligence Division
General Intelligence Division is created by The Justice Department.Its director being J. Edgar Hoover, a graduate of George Washington University Law School. -
Deportation
Attorney General A. Michel Palmer asked immigration to deport black activist Marcus Garvey but he did not go to prison until his later arrest in January 1922 on charges of mail fraud. His sentence being commuted in 1927, and Garvey is deported back to his motherland of Jamaica. -
Ten Days That Shook the World
Red Russia and Ten days That Shook the World by John Reed were published. They're based on his first hand account of the 1917 Revolution. Back in the US. Reed is expelled from the Socialist Party. Benjamin Gitlow and him form the Communist Labor Party. For a few years it is compiled with the Russian led Communist Party of America. Later in 1919, Reed returns to Russia. -
America's First Red Scare
A postal clerk in New York discovered bombs in 20 packages adressed to a variety of government officials. The bombs were set to explode the next day on May Day. The attack launched America's First Red Scare -
End of Russia's civil war
Led by Georgi Zhukov the Red Army defeats the White Army of the Cossacks and other counter-revolutionaries thus ending Russia's civil war. -
Chinese Manifesto
First Chinese Communist Manifesto is published in Shanghai. -
League of Nations
League of Nations is formed then later dissolved on the same day in 1946, shortly after the founding of the United Nations. -
Explosive Anarchists
A bomb explodes on Wall Street killing 20 and injuring many. Anarchists are blamed -
American Communist Party
The Communist Part of America and John Reed's Communist Labor Party merge into the American Communist Party at a convention held in Woodstock, NY -
Release
President Warren G. Harding orders the release of Eugene V. Debs from prison. In 1920, while in prison, Debs had run as the Socialist Party candidate for president. He stated: “I consider the Russian Revolution] the greatest single achievement in all history. I am still a Bolshevik. I am fighting for the same thing here they are fighting for there -
USSR
The USSR is formed -
Elected.
Central Committee elected Stalin as general secretary the most important post in the Party. -
Died and Succeeded.
Lenin dies and is succeeded by Stalin. -
Removed
Leon Trotsky is removed from his position as commissar for the army and navy and chairman of the military council. -
National Negro Labor Congress
Organized by the Communist Party, the National Negro Labor Congress. -
Shocking!
Anarchist Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanceti are electrocuted. They were convicted of robber and murder in 1921. Their trial and execution became rallying points for American progressives.