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Marxists Revolutionaries split
marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
the Russo-Japanese War Begins
Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. The Russian fleet was decimated. -
Bloody Sunday
On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. -
Constitution of 1906
The Duma calls on the tsarist government to ratify democratic reforms; Goremykin, the tsar's prime minister, says the Duma has no authority to make such demands. -
Battle of Tannenberg begins
On August 26, 1914, the German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian 2nd Army, led by General Aleksandr Samsonov, in East Prussia during the opening weeks of the First World War. -
“International Women’s Day”
10,000 Petrograd women marched through the city, they shouted “peace and Bread” and “down with autocracy”. Then other workers and people joined and shut down factories on March 10th -
Vladimir Lennon comes to power
In November 1917 Russia became the first communist government lead by Lenin, communists took over the vital city of St Petrograd and removed the Provisional Government from power. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk concluded
On March 3 in the city of Brest- Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. -
black and red form an alliance
The Black Army and the Red Army sign a treaty of alliance, which will prove deadly to the white army -
Treaty of Moscow
It was friendship treaty between Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Bolshevist Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. This was signed on March 16, 1921. -
The Soviet Union Established
In post revolutionary Russia, the USSR is established comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.
