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Army Officers Revolt
Army officers felt that they were being unfairly governed by the current czars and revolted. Secret groups of revolutionaries began to form to overthrow the government -
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Number of factories doubles
Despite an increase in the number of Russian factories, industrially Russia still lagged behind other nations. -
Student Revolts
Angry over the slow pace of political change student revolutionaries decide to revolt and assasinate Alexander II -
Alexander III enthroned
Alexander III comes to the throne after the assassination of Alexander II -
Document E
Document E I think should be around 1890 because it involves the writings of Karl Marx. The marxists split in 1903 and they were under Marx's influence so 1890 makes a lot of sense. -
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
Russia starts working on the Trans-Siberian railroad in 1891 with financial help from French and English investors. It is finished in 1904. It conencted European Russia with eastern Russion ports -
Russia becomes 4th world producer in steel
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Russian Marxists split
Marxists split into two groups over disputes in revolutionary tactics. The Mensheviks wanted to have popular support for the revolution and the Bolsheviks wanted only radical revolutinoaries. The split was caused by growing discontent among the Russian population. -
Japanese attack on port Arthur
Japanese forces attack the Russion port Arthur after Russia broke a series of agreements over territorial spaces -
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Series of Russian crises
Multiple events displayed the weakness of the czars and added fuel to the revolution. -
Bloody Sunday
200,000 workers go to the palace to petition for better working conditioncs and and elected legestrator. Nick II generals and police chiefs order soldiers to fire on unarmed civilians. This massacre sparked waves of strikes and violence throughout Russia. -
Creation of the Duma
after striks across the country, Nick II creates the Duma,m russians parlement. -
Duma first Meeting
THe duma wanted russia to become a constitutional monarchy. The czar dissolved the Duma after ten weeks fearing loss of power -
World War I
Nicholas II makes Russia enter WWI even though they were unprepaired for such a conflict. This lack of preparation lead the death of over 4,000,000 soldiers. -
Nicholas II & Rasputin
Nicholas II moves his family closer to the front of the war to increase military moral. While on the frontlines a holy man named Rasputin gains the favor of Nicholas' wife who soon allowed him to make important militant descisions. -
Rasputin murdered
After being allowed to make governmental descisions Rasputin began corrupting the royal court and was soon killed by a group of nobles who feared his rise in power in the government. -
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Document D
Document D belongs here because during the civil wars and the bolsheviks revolution where people wanted communish which the posters are in support of. -
March Revolution
Women textile workers lead a cittwide strike over bread and fuel shortages in Petrograd, over 200,000 workers joined. Soldiers originally siding with the czar soon began firing on government troops and officials. Soon the strike led into a general fullblown uprising of the working class. -
Lenin returns to Russia
Lenin's return to Russia is organized by fellow Belsheviks. -
Bolshevik revolution
After Lenin returned to Russia he and the Bolsheviks seized power of the Pertrograd soviet and other soviets during the March revolution. -
Provisional Government Overthrow
Bolshevik soldiers called Red Guards storm the Winter Palace and arrested leaders of the then provisional government set up during the March Revolution. -
Nicholas II & family murdered
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Document A
Document A belongs where it is on the timeline because it occured righ after all these revolutions including some against Stalin's ideas. So he wanted to be in control of people so no one would usurp his power -
Document H
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Civil War
After the treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia was split into the Red Guard Bolsheviks and their opponents the White Army who were constantly fighting each other. During this time several Western nations along with America gave military aid to the White Army to fight against Lenin. Eventually the Bulsheviks won and crushed any and all opposers within Russia. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in which Russia gave Germany a large portion of Russian territory in order to create peace between nations. -
New Economic Policy
Lenin launched the NEP as a way to get Russia on the road to economic recovery, NEP worked like small-scale capitalism allowing surplus to be sold for personal profit instead of being turned over to the government. Only small buisnesses were allowed to be privately operated. -
Russia Renamed to USSR
Russia was renamed to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in honor of the councils that backed the Bolsheviks. All of Russia was now controlled by the capitol centered in Moscow. -
Bolsheviks renamed to Communists
They were renamed to the Communists because of Marx's writing in which communism was used to describe the society that would exist without classes controlled by the workers. -
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Stalin becomes dictator of Russia
Stalin starts out as the secratary to the Communist party and began to move his followers into important positions within the government until he was able to sweep into command of the party altogether as an absolute dictator. -
Five-Year Plans
Stalin sets out a group of five year plans meant to overhaul Russia's government the way he saw fit. Included in these five year plans were extremely high quotas for workers to make in the production of steel, coal, oil, and electricity. In order for citizens to achieve these Stalin limited consumer goods which lead to severe shortages of basic necessities -
Document B
Document B belongs here because it was after WWI where Russia suffered a large economic defeat. Different economics reforms were being introduced because Stalin felt Russia was far behind all the other countries in industry -
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Industrial Production Increases 25%+
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Agriculture revolution
Starting in 1928 the government began claiming millions of private farms and turning them into large government owned collective farms where those citizens would work not for themselves but for the state. Peasants hated this idea and killed off many of their crops and animals to protest. These peasants were forced at bayonet point to work on the farms anyways. Among protesting peasants the wealthy kulak peasants were executed or sent to working camps. By 1938 90% of farms were collective. -
Document C
Doc C makes sense here because this is when Stalin is in full swing and he has control over the KGB and can make anyone literally dissapear if they disagree or threaten him -
Document G
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Great Purge
Stalin executed thousand of Bolsheviks for "crimes against the Soviet State" in order to destroy any threats to his power. Along with bolsheviks anyone who was deemed even slightly noteworthy was harshly punished -
Document F
Document F