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Marxist revolutionaries dissagree over revoultionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes leader.
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Japanese attack Russian ports. News of repeated defeats spread in Russia.
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200,000 workers and their families approached the Czar's winter palace. They had a petition that would form an elected government and improve the standard of living. Soldiers were ordered to open fire on the workers.
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Russia's first parliament met. The leaders were moderates who wanted a government similar to Great Britains constitutional monarchy.
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Czar Nicholas II drags Russia into WWI. They fight the Germans on the Eastern Front.
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Female textile workers lead a city-wide strike causing riots to break out for five days. Soldiers side with the workers. Czar Nicholas II steps down from the throne and is executed.
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Armed factory workers storm the winter palace in Petrograd. They took over government offices and arrested the leaders of the Provisional Government.
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Russia and Germany sign the Brest-Litovsk treaty. Russia suffers huge losses of land to Germany and its allies.
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Russia's civil war between the White and Red armies ends. 14 million people died in the three year conflict.
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Lenin places into affect a small-scale capitalistic economy. Government kept control of all major businesses, but farmers could still sell surplus crops, etc.
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Lenin suffers a stroke and survives. Stalin begins his climb to power.
