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| 1881 | Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich |  |
| Birth of Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov |
| 1917 | Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1918 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 6th Mar The Bolshevik Party is renamed the Russian Communist Party |
| 9th Mar 7th Congress resolution changes the name of the Bolshevik Party to the Communist Party |
| 1919 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Moscow The new manifesto is adopted |
| 1919 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1920 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1924 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Suggests peasants be freed to increase food production |
| The party leadership decide to legalize hiring of labor & leasing of land |
| The party leadership decide to lower agricultural taxes |
| 1924 | Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Communist Party |
| Appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars |
| 1927 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 26th Oct Describes the opposition as a "combination of castrated forces" |
| 26th Oct The opposition is not allowed to speak |
| 1928 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| Moscow Recants his opposition to Stalin & is allowed back into the Communist Party |
| 1931 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Communist Party in Russia |
| 1939 | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1950 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Appointedandidate Member of the Communist Party |
| 1952 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1955 | Belyakov, Oleg Sergeevich | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1955 | Lukyanov, Anatoly Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1968 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| 3rd Aug Bratislava In the Bratislava Declaration Russia expresses its intention to intervene in a Warsaw Pact country if a "bourgeois" system-a pluralist system of several political parties is ever established |
| 3rd Aug Bratislava Representatives from Russia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia meet in Bratislava and sign the Bratislava Declaration |
| 3rd Aug Bratislava The Bratislava Declaration ffirms unshakable fidelity to Marxism-Leninism & proletarian internationalism & declares an implacable struggle against "bourgeois" ideology and all "antisocialist" forces |
| 3rd Aug Bratislava The policy of Russia to demand socialist governments of its Satellite states wihin the "Eastern Bloc" (through military force if needed) becomes known as the Brezhnev Doctrine |
| 1986 | Shevardnadze, Eduard | |
| The concept of class war as the basis for foreign policy is scrapped |
| 1987 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 12th Nov Moscow Fired as head of the Moscow's Communist party for criticizing the slow pace of reform |
| 1988 | Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich | |
| Aug Appointed Deputy Minister of the Interior in Azerbaijan |
| Aug Appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in Russia by Boris Yeltsin |
| 1988 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 28th June Address es a special Communist Party conference & outlines "a new image of socialism" |
| 1990 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| The Russian Communist Party is founded |
| 1991 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| 20th July Yeltsin bans political activity in government offices and republic-run businesses, effectively curtailing the influence of the Communist Party |
| 21st Aug Yeltsin bans the Communist Party of the Russian Republic for its central role in the August 1991 coup against the Gorbachev government |
| 23rd Aug Moscow Gorbachev and Yeltsin act to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB |
| 6th Nov Moscow Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party |
| 1993 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Despite Yeltsin's objections, the Constitutional Court cleares the way for the Russian communists to reemerge as the KPRF, headed by Zyuganov |
| Oct Yeltsin temporarily bans the party again for its role in the Supreme Soviet's just-concluded attempt to overthrow his administration |
| 1993 | Zyuganov, Gennadiy | |
| Despite Yeltsin's objections, the Constitutional Court cleares the way for the Russian communists to reemerge as the KPRF, headed by Zyuganov |
| Oct Yeltsin temporarily bans the party again for its role in the Supreme Soviet's just-concluded attempt to overthrow his administration |
| 1996 | Zyuganov, Gennady | |
| 3rd July Despite suffering a heart attack in June, Yeltsin wins a second term in office, defeating communist Gennady Zyuganov by 13 points in the national election |
