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Czar Nicolasii RULE
Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. Nicholas II, his wife, his son, his four daughters, the family's medical doctor, the Emperor's footman, the Empress' maidservant, and the family's cook were executed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16/17 July 1918 -
Russia civil war
The Russian Civil War (7 November (25 October) 1917 – October 1922) was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red -
Russia revolution
The February Revolution (March 1917) was a revolution focused around Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). In the chaos, members of the Imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government. The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution and Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, abdicated. The Soviets (workers' councils), which were led by more radical socialist factions, initially permitted the Provisional Government -
lenin returns to russia
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin gained an interest in revolutionary leftist politics following the execution of his brother in 1887. Briefly attending the University of Kazan, he was ejected for his involvement in anti-Tsarist protests, devoting the following years to gaining a law degree and to radical politics, becoming a Marxist. In 1893 he moved to St. Petersburg, becoming a senior figure within the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class -
Beginning of strikes
General strikes have been done in order to seek "democracy, political representation and the provision of basic education and healthcare".[1] In Europe, General Strikes were very common in the 19th and early 20th century. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. The Emperor was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time) -
Execution of the Romanov family
The execution of the Russian Imperial Romanov family and those who chose to accompany them into exile–Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp, and Ivan Kharitonov–[1]occurred in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918, on the orders of Vladimir Lenin, Yakov Sverdlov, and the Ural Soviet, to prevent them being subsequently used to muster the White forces in the ongoing Russian Civil War.[2][3] -
stalin becomes appointed general secretary
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. ... Under Stalin's rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet -
lenin has 2nd stroke and retires
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on 22 April 1870 in the small town of Simbirsk, Russia to a middle class family, and his father became a Russian nobleman. His father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov was an educational official, and his mother, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, was a teacher. -
bolsheviks established soviet union u.s.s.r
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world. It lost its dominance in the wake of the failure of the 1991 August putsch. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union emerged from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership -
lenin dies
On January 21, 1924 Vladimir Il'ich Lenin, the architect of the October Revolution and the "leader of the world's proletariat," died, having succumbed to ... -
Stalin creates "Socialism in one Country"
Socialism in One Country was a theory put forth by Joseph Stalin in 1924, elaborated by .... By creating the world market, big industry has already brought all the .. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty that the Soviet government was forced to sign on March 3, 1918 after almost six months long negotiations at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) between Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers marking Russia's exit from World War I. Signing of the treaty defaulted the Russia's commitments on the Triple Entente alliance.
