Russian Revolution Timeline

  • Rasputin Assassinated

    Rasputin Assassinated
    -known as the “Mad Monk”
    -People believed he was a psychic and faith healer
    -People say that he assisted the fall of the Ramanov Dynasty
    -died of a homicide; bullet to his head
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    Russian Civil War

    -Had many different “parties,” and occurred in the Roman Empire.
    -Resulted after the Bolshevik Revoltuion
    -Ended in 1921
    -Red Army vs. White Army
    -There were many volunteer foreign fighters that fought on both sides of the war
  • Petrograd Soviets formed

  • The March Revolution

    Also known as the "February Revolutin"
  • Czar Nicholas II abdicated

  • Bolshevik Revolution (seized the Winter Palace)

    -The Bolshevik Revolution was during the second phase of the Revolution
    -Location: Pretrograd, Russia
    -After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Russian Civil War began
    -Resulted in the creation of Russian Soviet Republic
    -The Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Provisional Government
  • Communist control Russia

    Communist control Russia
  • Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Lenin Shipped

  • Royal family murdered

    Royal family murdered