Russian Revolution

By Elphias

  • Feb/Mar revolution

  • July Days

    Uprisings in Petrograd under Provisional Government.

  • Kornilov Coup

    August Kornilov tried to seize power from Provisional Gov. who released the Bolsheviks to save them from Kornilov.

  • Oct/Nov Revolution

  • Establishment of Sovnarkon

    A council was established in October

  • Return of Lenin

    Lenin return to Russia with April Thesis

  • Civil War

    Reds Whites Greens

  • Treaty of Brest Litovsk

    Poor conditions for Russia to pull out of WW1

  • Comintern

    establishment of the comintern in March

  • Kronstadt Rising

    In March sailors rose up and put down by the Red Army

  • NEP introduced

    In March Lenin replaced War Communism with a more capitalist approach with the NEP

  • Rapallo Treaty

    In April

  • Lenin dies

    In January

  • Treaty of Berlin

    In April

  • Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamanev expelled

  • Period: to

    Stalin's Great Turn

  • First Five Year Plan

  • War on Kulaks and mass collectivisation

  • Period: to

    Famine in Ukraine

  • Second Five Year Plan

  • Kirov's Murder

    December

  • USSR enters League of Nations

    September

  • Stakhanovite movement starts

  • Aug Show trial of Kinoviev and Kamanev

  • Sept Soviet intervention in the Spanish civil war

  • Start of the Yezhovshchina

  • May - June Military purge

  • The Third Five Year Plans

  • Mar Show Trial of Bukharin, Rykov or others

  • Aug The Nazi Soviet Pact

  • Aug Death of Trotsky

  • Jun Germany invades USSR

  • Sept The siege of Leningrad starts

  • Oct-Dec Battle of Moscow

  • Aug Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • Feb German surrender at Stalingrad

  • Feb Yalta Conference