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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. -
Russia breaks agreement
Russia and Japan had signed a series of agreements over the territories but Russia broke them. Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria, in Feb of 1904. News of repeated Russian losses sparked unrest at home and led to a revolt in the midst of the war. -
Protest for better working conditions
200,000 workers and their families approached the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Carried a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national national legislature. -
Duma
Russia’s first parliament. First Duma met in May 1906. Its leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy similar to Britain. But because he was hesitant to share his power, the Czar dissolved the Duma after ten weeks. -
Dragged Russia In
Nicholas II made the fateful decision to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs. Its weak generals and poorly equipped troops were no match for the German army. -
Women in Petrograd strike
Women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. In the next five days, riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel. Nearly 200,000 workers marched the streets. First soldiers obeyed orders to shoot the rioters but they later sided with them. -
Workers storm the the Winter Palace
Without warning armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd. -
Treaty of Brest - Litovsk
Russia and Germany signed the Treaty, the Treaty has said that Russia surrendered a part of their land to Germany and its allies. -
Civil War outraged
Revolutionary leader Lean Trotsky expertly commanded the Bolshevik Red Army, war raged in Russia, -
New Economic Policy
Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy, Instead lenin decided to go with a small scale version of capitalism called the New Economic Policy. This let peasants sell their surplus crops instead of turning them to the government. However, the government kept control of bigger businesses and banks but let some small factories and banks but let some small factories and farms to operate under private ownership. -
Stalin is Dictator
Because of Lenin’s stroke in 1922, competition for heading up the Communist Party. Stalin moved up yo Dictator in 1928 and was noted to be a gigantic threat.
