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120,000 workers strike in St. Petersburg; government warns against any organised marches.
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Strikers are fired on at a protest in St. Petersburgh at orders of Nicholas II
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February 20th: The second Duma opens and includes many socialist representatives, including 18 Bolshevik deputies.
June 3rd: The second Duma is closed by Nicholas II, after several weeks of criticism and inflammatory speeches.
June: Stolypin alters the electoral law prior to elections for the third Duma. -
June-July: A wave of general strikes in St Petersburg reaches a crescendo.
July 19th: Germany declares war on Russia, boosting patriotic fervour and dampening support for socialist groups.
July 30th: Prince Georgy Lvov creates the All-Russian Zemstvo Union for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers. -
Germany declares war on Russia, causing a brief sense of patriotic union amongst the Russian nation
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The newly elected Constituent Assembly convenes with an SR majority; Lenin orders the Red Guards to close the assembly after just a few hours of discussion.
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The Sovnarkom formally announces the beginning of prodrazvyorstka: compulsory grain requisitioning.
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Lenin passes away after a fourth severe stroke. He is later embalmed and preserved in a mausoleum in Red Square, while the city of Petrograd is renamed Leningrad in his honour.
