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Decemberist Revolt
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Nicholas II becomes czar of Russia
He was assigned to the throne after the death of his father. Nicholas was not trained or inclined to rule. This lead to future problems in Russia. The same month of his fathers death he married Alexandra, who eventually became a big influnce to him. -
Start of Russo Japenese War
Russia suffered many defeats against Japan, but Nicholas was sure that Russia could win sohe stayed in the battle. In the end Japan pulled a suprise victory over Russia. -
Bloody Sunday
Unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the winter palace. This ceated a public outrage, and provoked many strikes and riots. -
Russia gets involved in WWI
Russia was drawn into the war by some of the same mistakes as other neighboring european countries, imperial rivalry, poisonous nationalism, military overconfidence, too much trust in alliances and not enough in diplomacy. Although they entered the war for the same reasons, they had a currently developing economy. This made it difficult, and sometimes impossible to keep up with Germany. -
The March Revolution
Russia involvment on WWI was the main cause of this Revolution. The strike spread among all of Petrograd’s workers, and mobs destroyed police stations and other buildings. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne
After leading his country into WWI, discontent in Russia grew as food became scarce, soldiers became war-weary, and devastating defeats on the eastern front demonstrated the czar’s ineffective leadership. During a strike at petrograd army garrison joined striking workers demanding socialist reforms, and Nicholas was forced to abdicate the thron. -
Russian Civil War Begins
Red Army, under the command of Vladimir Lenin, was fighting for the Blosheviks form of socialism, while the opposing White Army was fighting for interests favoring monarchism, capitalism and otherforms of socialism. The War ended with the victory of the Red Army and the rule of communism. It destroyed Russia, and made its already weak economy, even weaker. -
Creation of the USSR
The victory of the Red Army eventually lead to the creation of the USSR. This established, a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. Also know as the Soviet Union. -
Vladimir Lenin’s Death
After Lenin's death his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin. The city Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. And a fellow revolutionary Joseph Stalin became the new leader of the Soviet Union.
