Russian revolution

  • russo-japanese war

    russo-japanese war
    a navel attack on port aurthor.
  • Bloody sunday

    Bloody sunday
    when the people andthe preist marched tsar nicholas 2's palace in st. petersburg to get better living and eating arrangements.
  • revolution of 1905

  • creation of the duma

    creation of the duma
    a representative assembly for the enactment of legislation
  • russia enters ww1

    russia enters ww1
    largest army.
  • march revolution begins

  • nicholas 2 abdicates the throne

    nicholas 2 abdicates the throne
    taking care of his sick son and a government was too hard for him to handle
  • lenin returns from exile in germany

  • kerensky heads the provisional government

  • lenin takes power

    lenin takes power
    planned for the armed uprising to overthrow kerensky and his government.
  • russia pulls out of ww1

    russia pulls out of ww1
    they signed a treaty to end the war.
  • assassination of romanov family

    assassination of romanov family
    lenin wanted to become the new ruler but if nicholas escaped exile then would have to step down.
  • trotsky wins the civil war

    trotsky wins the civil war
    He was resposable for organizing the red army. he was good at stratigizing.
  • stalin comes to power

    stalin comes to power
    stalin exentually built loyalty with the communist party... and eventually exiled trotsky.
  • russia becomes a totalitarian state

  • Period: to

    great purge