Russian Revolutio

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    Russian Revolution

  • Bloody Sunday

    200,000 workers and families are protest at the czar's winter palace and 500-1000 are killed by commanders

  • Russia enters WWI

    Nicholas takes russia into the war

  • March Revolution

    200,000 workers protested in Petrograd, troops were ordered to shoot but later joined them. Czar Nicholas II steps down.

  • Bolshevik Revolution

    Lenin takes over Russia with help of the Bolshevik Red Guard.s

  • Civil war starts

  • Russia signs peace treaty with Germany

  • Civil War ends

  • Lenin launches the New Economic Policy

  • Country changes name to USSR

    USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics