Following the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) in Russia and the Spartacist Revolution in Germany (1918), Lenin issued 21 sets of principles to guided the Comintern in 1919. The Twenty-one Conditions, officially the Conditions of Admission to the Communist International, refer to the conditions given by Vladimir Lenin to the adhesion of the socialists to the Third International (Comintern) created in 1919 after the 1917 October Revolution. The conditions were formally adopted by the Second Congress of the Comintern in 1920. The conditions were: