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It was the war between Imperial Japan and the Russian Empire over Manchuria and Korea.
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The Russian armies were quickly losing, due to their lack of a navy. With a lack of supplies and without a navy, the Russians underestimated their non-western enemy.
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Lossing battle after battle, Russia saw that resistance against Japan was hopeless.
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Terrorism, agricultural struggles, and mutiny withing the army spiked. The Czar was desperate to stop these revolts.
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After Bloody Sunday, worker protests and peasant revolts increased rapidly.
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In the end, the government created the October Manifesto, a constitution that gave basic freedoms.
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Riots broke out in the capital, Petrograd, formerly St. Petersburg, on February 24, and, most of the Petrograd garrison joined the revolt.
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By 1917, governmental corruption and inefficiency went rampant.
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Nicholas II was forced to abdicate March 2. When his brother, Grand Duke Michael, refused the throne.
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The Russian Empire’s ethnic minorities grew increasingly restive under the domination of Russia.
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On March 14, the Soviet issued its famous Order No. 1, which lead the military to obey only the orders of the Soviet.
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The Provisional fail to countermand the order.
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All that now prevented the Soviet from declaring itself the real government of Russia.
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Between March and October the Provisional Government was reorganized four times.
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Military failures in the war left for the frontlines, leaving his unpopular wife and ministers to govern.
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In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms.
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After the November revolution, power was shared between the weak provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. Then on November 6th, revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government.
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A peasant and a self-proclaimed "holy man" that was interested in drinking and women. He gained power and influence for curing the Czar's son Aleksei of a blood disorder.
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On March 3, 1918, Lenin wanted to concentrate on building up a communist state and pull out of the war.
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Lenin signed the Brest-Litvosk Treaty.
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After his abdication, Czar Nicholas II and his family were placed under house-arrest outside of St. Petersburg. During the Russian Civil War, the family was moved to Tolbolsk, Siberia, and then Ekateringburg in the Ural mountains.
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For Lenin, the family was giving him problems. Being the source of inspiration for The Whites, he decides to execute them. thinking they are taking a group-photo, they take position, and are shot by troops coming into the basement.
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Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Republic write down a constitution to form the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics.
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From there, they either add more natinos that are willing to join the USSR, or use force to make weaker nations join.
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After 3 strokes and the problems they caused, Vladimir Lenin was dead.
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The person to orginally take charge was Trotsky, Lenin's right-hand man, but Joesph Stalin not only sabotages his attempts to take power, he steals it from Trotsky.