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1825 Decembrist Revolt
Nicolast the First wanted troops to take an oath and some refused to take it. The revolt wasa poorly organized and was easily defeated. -
1861 The Emancipation of Russian Serfs
Alexander proposed a manifesto that later became into a law. It stated that all privately owned serfs were given the right to become free citizens, free to marry and be able to won their own buisness. -
1903 The Social Democratic Party Splits
The Mensheviks and Bolsheviks were disagreeing and the party split and a very bloody battle broke out. -
1904 Russian War with Japan
Pointless war, Russia loses, Japan Wins, 400,000 casualties. -
1905 Bloody Sunday
Russia was corrupt and problepms started to erupt inside the goverement. A grop of soliders killed demonstrators, around 100 are dead. -
Revolution of 1905
Troops fired on defencesless crowd of workers. It gave citizens more rights, not many poeple were satisfied. -
Czar Nicholas ll Abicates the throne
In 1914 Nicholas led them into a costly war, he got hate and he advocated the throne. Later he and his family were killed. -
1917 Bolshevik revolution
A revolution swept through Russia ending centuries of imperial rule. Lenin made supreme leader. -
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty that ended its participation in WW1. -
1918-1921
The Whites and the Reds army didagreed on how russia was operation. The Whites failed to win support from the Russia people. Russia forms the USSR.