Rise of Socialism

1848-1917

1789-1848: Early Socialism

1796: Gracchus Babeuf leads the "Conspiracy of Equals."

1760-1825: Count Henri de Saint-Simon

1772-1837: Charles Fourier

1771-1858: Robert Owen

1840: Proudhon publishes What is Property?

1844: Marx and Engels form the Communist League

1848-1917: Labor Socialism and Anarchism

1848: Marx and Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.

1848: Workers revolt in Paris.

1814-1876: Mikhail Bakunin.

1864: The First International is founded in London.

1869: The Social Democratic Labor Party is founded in Prussia.

1875: The German Labor Party adopts the Gotha Program.

1878: Bismarck's Anti-Socialist legislation.

1889: The Second International is founded in Paris.

1895: The Confederation General du Travail is founded in France.

1899: Eduard Bernstein publishes his Evolutionary Socialism.

1908: Georges Sorel publishes Reflections on Violence.

1917-1992: Marxist Socialism

1917: Bolshevik coup is Russia.

1921: Lenin introduces New Economic Policy

1928-1932: First Five Year Plan.

1929: Leon Trotsky is exiled.

1936-1938: The Great Purges.

1948: Communist Party coup is Czechoslovakia.

1953: Nikita Khrushchev becomes Communist Party secretary in the Soviet Union.

1955: The Warsaw pact is formed.

1968: The "Prague Spring."

1985: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes general secretary of the Communist Party.

1900-2000: Western Marxism

1929-1931: First Labour government in Great Britain.

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