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Petrograd strikes and demonstrations
Women and thousands of male workers went on strike and crowded the streets calling for and end to war and the Monarch. The police were outnumbered and were unable to control the crowds. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates
Czar's costly decisions showed his ineffectual leadership so the army garrison joined striking workers in Petrograd and forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate. -
Lenin issues his April Thesis
After arriving in Petrograd, Russia, Lenin gave multiple speeches which advertised the overthrow of provisional government. Lenins one goal was to place Russia under Bolshevik control as soon as possible. -
Czar Nicholas and family executed
In Yekaterinburg, Russia, a death sentence is put on Czar Nicholas and his family by the Yekaterinburg soviet. One night while trying to escape, Nicholas, his wife and their five children were gunned down and anyone left breathing were then stabbed to death. -
Battle of Kazan
Reds try to keep whites away from Kazan but are badly prepared and most reds are captured by the whites who claim victory. -
Lenin's attempted assassination
Vladimir Lenin, Soviet leader, was shot twice by member of the Social Revolutionary party, Fanya Kaplan. Lenin survived but this assassination attempt set off a reaction of the Bolsheviks against the Social Revolutionaries and other political opponents. -
Czar tightens control in reaction to war failures