timeline of the russian revolution

By gbeer1

  • nicholas romanov 2nd was born

  • vladimir ulyanov-lenin was born

  • lev bronstein-trotsky was born

  • tsar nicholas the second came to the throne

  • nicholas and alexandra romanovs wedding

  • the social democrats were founded

  • tsar in control-rules by autocracy

  • the socialist revelutionarys were formed

  • the social democrats split iinto the mensheviks and the bolshevicks

  • bloody sunday

    a march to deliver a petition to the tsar,petitioners were met by troops.

  • grand duke sergei, the tsars uncle was assasinated in moscow

  • Period: to

    peasants rioted in the countryside

    landowners houses were looted and burnt
  • Period: to

    general strike spread from moscow to other cities

  • the st.petersburg soviet of deputies workers was formedde

    they met to organise strike action.

  • The Fundamental Laws were issued, reaffirming the autocratic supremacy of the tsar. The First Duma was called

  • The First Duma was dissolved.

  • The Second Duma began

  • The Second Duma was dissolved.

  • The Third Duma began.

  • Lena goldfields massacre: The Russian army fired on a crowd of striking miners, killing 150.

  • The Third Duma ended.

  • The Fourth Duma was called

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • World War I: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

  • World War I: Russia mobilized its army to defend Serbia.

  • Grigori Rasputin was murdered by a group of nobles

  • order no. 1 issued by the soviet

  • tsar abdicates. provisional government declared

  • lenin returns to petrograd from switzerland

  • april theses published

  • non-bolshevik socialists become ministers in the provisional government

  • first all-russian congress of soviets meets

  • major military offensive launched by kerensky

  • attempted coup by general Kornilov

  • bolsheviks win control of moscow soviet

  • bolsheviks win control of petrograd soviet

  • lenin returns to petrograd secretly and persuades bolsheviks to seize power

  • Period: to

    bolsheviks take control of petrograd and force provisional government out

  • A decree of the Sovnarkom established the Red Army.

  • A decree by the Central Executive Committee made war communism, under which all industry and food distribution was nationalized, the economic policy of the Soviet state.

  • trotsky was forced to resign his military forces