Russian Revolution By seizure Dec 29, 1916 Rasputin Assassinated Feb 16, 1917 Communists control Russia Mar 8, 1917 The March Revolution Mar 12, 1917 Petrograd Soviets formed Mar 15, 1917 Czar Nicholas II abdicates Apr 16, 1917 Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia Nov 6, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution (seized the Winter Palace) Nov 16, 1917 Russian Civil War (November 1917 – October 1922) Mar 1, 1918 Royal family murdered Mar 3, 1918 Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
