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Decembrist Revolt
The Decembrist Revolt was where any of the Russian revolutionaries who led an unsuccessful uprising. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. -
Nicholas II becomes czar of Russia
Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia.Nicholas II was born on May 18, 1868, in Pushkin, Russia. He inherited the throne when his father, Alexander III, died in 1894. -
The Social-Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
The Russian social demcratic labour party was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1903 that splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks . -
The Russo-Japanese War
By 1904, Russia and Japan had endured several years of disputes over control of Manchuria. -
Bloody Sunday
On this day in St. Petersburg there was a Massacre. -
The Revolution of 1905
The 1905 Russian Revolution was sparked off by a peaceful protest held on January 22nd. This protest may well have been the turning point in the relationship the tsar, Nicholas II, enjoyed with his people. -
Russia's involvment in Wrold War 1
World War One was to have a devastating impact on Russia. When World War One started in August 1914, Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. -
Czar Nicholas ii abdicates the throne.
Nicholas was forced to abdicate from the throne because by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. -
Alexander Kerensky becomes the leader of the provisional government
Alexander Kerensky led, for part of its short life, the Provisional Government. Kerensky belonged to the Socialist Revolutionaries, the Petrograd Soviet and was a member of the Duma. -
The March Revolution
March 1917 saw major changes in Russia. Rasputin was dead and Lenin was out of the country. By the start of 1917, the people of Russia were very angry. -
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
on the day of April 3, 1917 a train from Finland arrived in St. Petersburg. Aboard was Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to take of the winter palace. -
The Russian Civil War begins
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. -
Nicholas II and his family are executed
The family went into the basment and stood close together and thought they were getting a family photo but really they were getting killed. -
Vladimir Lenin dies and Josef Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. -
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