russia

1914 world war 1

1914

World War I begins in the Balkans, with Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, USA, and Japan going against Austria, Germany, and Turkey

February revolution

1917

Riots with women, workers, and defecting soldiers, Czar Nicholas II abdicates, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty, otherwise known as the February revolution

End of the Czar's

1918

Czar Nicholas II, his wife, and their children are killed by the secret police of the Bolsheviks

Lenin moves

1918

Lenin nationalizes the factories, and also collectivizes the farms, whole outlawing the church

communist party

1918

Lenin changes the name of the Bolshevik party to the Russian Communist Party

economic polocy

1921

Lenin enacts the New Economic Policy also called state polocy

soviet union

1922

The Soviet Union is created by uniting Russia, Ukraine, Transcaucasus, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan

Lenin's death

1924

Lenin dies and is succeeded by Joseph Stalin