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ZAR NICOLÁS II
Nikolai Aleksándrovich Románov. Nicholas was born on May 18, 1868 and ended his days shot by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. He was the last Russian czar. Nicholas II of Russia, son of Alexander III, ruled from the death of his father, on October 20, 1894, until his abdication on March 2, 1917. During his reign he saw how the Russian Empire suffered an economic and military debacle. -
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Intervention of Russia in World War I
The history of Russia during the First World War was a crucial period in the modern history of the country that began with its entry into the First World War in August 1914 and formally ended in March 1918 with the signing of the Treaty of Brest. Litovsk, after the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the Soviet Government during the October Revolution. The end of Russian participation in the world war was followed by the Russian civil war. -
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LENIN
Vladímir Ilich Uliánov (1870-1924) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism; his ideas were posthumously codified as Marxism–Leninism. -
February Revolution
The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present-day St. Petersburg), the then-capital of Russia, where long-standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February Old Style. -
October Revolution
The October Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd on 7 November. The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the occupation of government buildings on 7 November 1917. -
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Civil War
The Russian Civil War, conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. -
CPSU
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union. The CPSU was the sole governing party of the Soviet Union until 1990, when the Congress of People's Deputies modified Article 6 of the most recent 1977 Soviet constitution, which had granted the CPSU a monopoly over the political system. The party was founded in 1912 by the Bolsheviks, a majority faction detached from the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, also called Peace of Brest-Litovsk was a treaty signed on March 3, 1918 by Russia, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in the city of Brest-Litvosk. This treaty put an end to Russia's participation in the First World War. The search for peace is a vindication of many Russian citizens and a majority of the Bolshevik Party. Lenin, was one of those who most defended the end of Russia's participation in the First World War. -
Execution of the Tsar and his family.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment—notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov, were shot and bayoneted to death in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. -
Creation of the USSR
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[c] (USSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
