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Russia 1917-1918
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Bloody sunday
150 000 workers joined a demonstration to commemorate Bloody Sunday.The Bolsheviks, whose membership has been steadily increasing to 24,000 people, help organise demonstrations in rememberance of Bloody Sunday. All the main Bolshevik leaders are in prison or exile, so the vast majority of current party decisions are made from the bottom up. 30,000 Moscow workers strike in demonstration, while 145,000 workers strike in Petrograd. Baku, Nizhni Novgorod, Novocherkassk, Voronezh, Kharkov, Rostov-on- -
strikes began at the putilov works
a series of major strikes in Russia during World War I. They were led by the workers of the Putilov Factory in Petrograd, which employed more than 21,000 persons. A Bolshevik organization numbering more than 100 party members in 14 shop groups and Socialist Revolutionary and Menshevik organizations functioned at the factory. As a result of the war, the living conditions of the Putilov workers had deteriorated sharply. On February 4 the workers of the electrical shop demanded a 70 percent pay -
The february revolution
The February Revolution begins, ignited by International Women's Day. Militant women textile workers, many of whom are soldiers' wives, inititate a massive strike in Petrograd, despite the protests of their own union leadership. 128,000 workers take to the streets, and among their chief demands is an end to the World War and an increase in food. Bourgeois history recounts this organized movement as "Bread riots". -
international womans day
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Tsar abricates
Tsar abdicates.provisional government takes power.Food shortages, rationing and wild inflation were rife in Russian cities, and Bolshevik agitators promising “peace, bread and land” captured the public attention. In February 1917, strikes in Petrograd led to a demonstration and Cossack soldiers refused the Tsar's orders to fire on demonstrators. Nicholas’ loss of support and weakening leadership led to his abdication.http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-abdication-of-tsar-nicholas-ii-1917 -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends WW
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Abolition of the death Penalty
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Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin Lenin (1870-1924) returns from exile
His arrival is in a sealed train. Lenin delivers his April Thesis. The Bolsheviks soon produce an educational pamphlet for workers on Political Parties in Russia and the Tasks of the Proletariat. Meanwhile, the steamer Trotsky is traveling on is stopped for inspection by the British Navy in Canada, and despite the General Amnesty and having his visa in order, he is thrown into a British prison, along with several other Socialists for their opp -
July days anti-provisional government protests
July Days. After receiving an order to go to the front, thousands of machine-gunners hold a meeting about an armed insurrection. The Bolsheviks try to cool things off, while the Anarchists stoke the fire. The soldiers decide to march, fully armed, and send delegates from one factory after another, with workers dropping everything to join the march. Tens of thousands go marching, demanding All power to the Soviets! -
Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Gov't
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until overthrown in the October Revolution. -
Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
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Winter Palace falls; Lenin in Control
On the evening of April 3, 1917 a train from Finland arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia and changed history. Aboard was Vladimir Lenin, previously exiled to Switzerland by the Czarist government but returned to Russia by the Germans in the hope that he would transform the popular unrest ignited by the overthrow of the Czar two months earlier into a revolution that would topple the Provisional Government and take Russia out of the war. The German hopes were realized six months later. Vladimir L
