Joseph Stalin timeline

Stalin goes as a representative of the Bolsheviks to a conference in Finland where he meets Lenin for the first time.

Stalin is appointed to the Party's Central Committee by Lenin

Stalin is elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party

Lenin dies.

Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class"

Trotsky is assassinated by Stalin's agent

Stalin meets with Roosevelt and Churchill in Tehran

Stalin dies

Civil War in Russia. Stalin commands forces in Tsaritsyn, St. Petersburg and elsewhere

Stalin publicly attacks Trotsky for being unfaithful to "Leninism"