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Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
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Japan attacked Russia due to Russia breaking the signed agreements over land between them two.
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200,000 workers and their families walked to Czar's winter palace to ask for better working conditions, personal freedom, and an elected national legislature.
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Duma (Russians 1st parliment) met up for the first time. Leaders were moderates whom wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy.
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Nicholas II made the fateful decision to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs for the war.
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Woman textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. Bread and fuel shortages occured.
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Bolshevik Red Guards stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd to take over the government offices, and arrested the leaders of the provisional government.
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Russia and Germany sing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This made Russia give up some of their territory to Germany which angered Russians emensly.
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The Russian civil war ends, with around 14 million Russians dead.
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Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy. He resorted to a small-scale version of capitalism a.k.a New Economic Policy (NEP).
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Russia is now called Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), in honor of the councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin dies from a stroke, and Joseph Stalin begins his ruthless climb to the head of the government.
