Russian Revolution

  • Exile of Lenin

    Exile of Lenin
    Lenin was in Exile because he was a dangerous radical socialist. The Tsar's secret police put some radicals in Internal exile Lenin had been in internal exile, but his activities did not cease, so he was exiled.
  • Socialist Democratic Party

    Socialist Democratic Party
    The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party. The RSDLP later split into Majority and Minority factions, with the Majority faction eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Interdistrictites were also formed from this party.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party. The RSDLP later split into Majority and Minority factions, with the Majority faction eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Interdistrictites were also formed from this party.
  • Murder of Rasputin

    Murder of Rasputin
    Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a self-proclaimed holy man, is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.
  • February revolution

    February revolution
    The February Revolution was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. It was centered on Petrograd, then the Russian capital, on Women's Day in March. The revolution was confined to the capital and its vicinity, and lasted less than a week.
  • Tsar Abdication

    Tsar Abdication
    Following the February Revolution of 1917 Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son, and he and his family were imprisoned. In the spring of 1918, Nicholas was handed over to the local Ural Soviet; with the approval of Lenin, Nicholas and his family were eventually executed by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
  • Lenin return form exile

    Lenin return form exile
    On April 16, 1917, Lenin returned to the Russian capital of Petrograd after a decade in self-imposed exile. Within a year, he would overthrow the government
  • October Revolution

    October Revolution
    The October Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd.
  • Civil War

    Civil War
    The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism and alternative forms of socialism, each with democratic and antidemocraticvariants.
  • Creation of the USSR

    Creation of the USSR
    The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR officially created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), it was created on 30 December of 1922 it is also commonly known as the Soviet Union. It de jure legalized a union of several Soviet republics and created a new centralized federal government where key function were centralized in Moscow.
  • Death of Lenin

    Death of Lenin
    August 1918, Vladimir Lenin survived an assassination attempt. A 28-year-old Fanny Kaplan, a Socialist Revolutionary, shot at him three times. She was executed on 3 September. Lenin survived but was weakened by his injuries which, less than six years later, contributed to his early death.
  • Joseph Stalin in government

    Joseph Stalin in government
    The government of Stalin or the period when he governed is also known as stalinism which have a mining of governing and related policies implemented by Joseph Stalin. Stalinist policies in the Soviet Union included state terror, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country, a centralized state, collectivization of agriculture, cult of personality in leadership, and subordination of interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union