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Rasputin Assassinated
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Petrograd Soviets formed
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The March Revolution
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Czar Nicholas II abdicates
He firstly abdicated in favour of Tsarevich Alexei
Instead changed his mind after advice from doctors that the heir-apparent would not live long apart from his parents who would be forced into exile
Nicholas drew up a new manifesto naming his brother, Grand Duke Michael, as the next Emperor of all the Russias -
Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia
Lenin and Krupskaya met their fellow exiles in Bern, a group eventually numbering thirty boarded a train which took them to Zurich
From there they travelled to the specially arranged train which was waiting at Gottmadingen, just short of the official German crossing station at Singen. Accompanied by two German Army officers, who sat at the rear of the single carriage behind a chalked line, the exiles travelled through Frankfurt and Berlin to Sassnitz, where a ferry took them -
Bolshevik Revolution
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Period: to
Russian Civil War
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Communist control Russia
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Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russians surrendered the Ukraine, Finland, the Baltic provinces, the Caucasus and Poland
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918
Under the treaty, Russia lost Riga, Lithuania, Livonia, Estonia and some of White Russia. These areas had great economic importance as they were some of the most fertile farming areas in Western Russia. Germany was allowed by the terms of the treaty to exploit these lands to support her military effort in the west -
Royal family murdered
