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It was staged in Imperial Russia by the ary officers who led about three thousand Russian Soilders.
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Emancipation of Russian Serfs was the single most important reform of the reign of Alexander II.
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Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.
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Nicholas was not trained to take the throne, that did not help the autocracy he wanted to preserve in an era desperate for change.
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In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty.
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They disagreed on how the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was to be formed. Julius Martov was in charge of the party, he wanted it to be as large as possible with relatively few restrictions.
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After the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea.
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Russian Orthodox priest, Father Gapon, 150,000 people took to the cold and snow covered streets of St Petersburg to protest about their lifestyle.
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More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war.
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workers in the city’s largest factory demanded a 50% wage increase so that they could buy food. The management refused so the workers went on strike. They chanted "Land, Peace, and Bread!"
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Kerensky was one of its most prominent leaders: he was a member of the Provisional Committee and was elected vice-chairman of the Petrograd Soviet
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A train from Finland arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia and changed history. on the train was Vladimir Lenin, he had recently been exciled to Switzerland by the Czar government and returned by the Germans.
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Nicholas II ruled from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917
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The main fighting was between three groups: the Red Army, the White Army.
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Civil Rights protesters were shot by soilders in the british army.
