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Original Soviet text was not copyrighted
First posted 20040108
| 1/11 | 1939: Extraordinary 5th session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ordered that the request of the people's assembly of Western Ukraine to include the West Ukraine in membership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its reunification with the Ukrainian SSR, be granted. |
| 2/11 | 1939: Extraordinary 5th session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ordered that the request of the people's assembly of West Belorussia to include West Belorussia in membership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its reunification with the Belorussian SSR, be granted. |
| 3/11 | 1924: The city of Ekaterinburg is renamed Sverdlovsk. |
| 4/11 | 1920: Formation of the Udmurt Autonomous Oblast, which became the Udmurt ASSR in 1934. |
| 5/11 | 1935: The city of Lugansk is renamed Voroshilovgrad. |
| 6/11 | 1917: V.I. Lenin arrived at Smol'ny for direct leadership of the armed uprising. |
| 7/11 | 24 years of the Great October Socialist Revolution. |
| 8/11 | 1918: 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets approved decree on peace, land, carried out the decision on the formation of a Worker-Peasant government. V.I. Lenin chosen as Chairman of Sovnarkom, I.V. Stalin as People's Commissar on Nationality Issues. |
| 9/11 | 1920: The Red Army took Perekop. |
| 13/11 | 1920: Congress of the peoples of Dagestan. At the Congress Comrade Stalin announced the decree about the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet. |
| 14/11 | 1938: Decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the organization of Party propaganda in connection with the publication of the "Short Course on the History of the CPSU. |
| 1935: Opening of the 1st All-Union Conference of Stakhanovite Workers in Industry and Transportation. | |
| 17/11 | 1935: Speech by Comrade Stalin at the 1st All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites. |
| 19/11 | 1711: Birth of M.V. Lomonosov - first great Russian scientist and author. Died 1765. |
| 20/11 | 1931: The city of Tver' is renamed Kalinin. |
| 1919: Foundation of the Communist International of Youth. | |
| 1910: Death of L.N. Tolstoj - great Russian writer. Born 1828. | |
| 1875: Birth of M.I. Kalinin - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. | |
| 22/11 | 1893: Birth of L.M. Kaganovich - member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, deputy Chairman of SovNarKom of the USSR, People's Commissar on means of communication in the USSR. |
| 23/11 | 1937: Death of Sulejman Stal'skij - People's Poet of Dagestan. Born 1869. |
| 24/11 | 1924: Proclamation of the Turkmen SSR. |
| 25/11 | 1936: Opening of the Extraordinary 8th Congress of Soviets, with a report on the planned Constitution of the USSR made by Comrade Stalin. |
| 1895: Birth of A.I. Mikoyan - member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, deputy Chairman of SovNarKom of the USSR, People's Commissar of External Trade. | |
| 27/11 | 1919: Decoration of Comrade Stalin with the Order of the Red Banner. |
| 28/11 | 1820: Birth of F. Engels - friend and comrade-in-arms of K. Marx, founder of scientific communism. Died 1895. |
| 29/11 | 1939: Speech on the radio by the Chairman of SovNarKom, V.M. Molotov, about decisions of the Soviet government in connection with provocations by Finnish militarists on the Soviet-Finnish border. |
| 1920: Proclamation of the Armenian SSR; in 1936 reorganized as a Union Republic. | |
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