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Alexander III oppressed the jewish population of Russia. He also promoted policies that would strengthen the status and power of the Russian nobility while ignoring the majority (peasants). he was significant because he set the stage for people to not like the Czar.
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He wanted to be very powerful - absolute power (autocracy), and Czar Nicholas II wanted to rule without the participation of the citizens in the government. he is significant because he was not well liked at all.
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Russo-Japanese War was a territorial dispute over the manchurian area both imperial powers saw it as theirs to take which caused the war. in the end the japanese won the war. it was significant because it created civil unrest in the citizens and they revolted an were unhappy with their ruler.
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The Russians and the government was desperate to divide the opposition during an uprising and were totally defeated by the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War. it was significant because it led to the creation of the duma.
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On Sunday, January 22, 1905, 200,000 Russian workers and their families were tired of their terrible working and living conditions. They decided to march to their leaders (Czar Nicholas) palace to demand relief. As they arrived, police begin shooting the protesters. At least 100 were killed, and 3,000 injured. The leaders of the protest were arrested. it was significant because many people Inspired by Bloody Sunday, made riots ranging across Russia. -
Russia reluctantly entered the Great War to preserve its status as a great power. it was significant because once the fighting began, it was the first amongst the Allies to state its territorial desiderata, which were to annex lands along the borders of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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He was strongly religious and viewed as a holy man. At first, Rasputin was viewed as magical, and a saint, but once he was given more control over the government (since the Czar was away at war, Czarina used him as her reference) this is significant because the members of nobility decided to try and kill him, by poisoning him, shooting him, and eventually drowning.
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In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. this is significant because it showed that Nicholas had a loss of support and weakening leadership that led to his abdication.
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On November 7 and 8, 1917, Red Guards captured Provisional Government buildings in a bloodless coup d'état. The Bolsheviks seized power of the government and proclaimed Soviet rule, this is significant because it made Lenin leader of the world's first communist state.
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The causes of Russia's Civil War was the growing power of the soviets, that war was the reds vs the whites. this is significant because. The Red Army fought for the Lenin's Bolshevik government and they won.
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A 1922 treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia (modern Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). this is significant because The newly established Communist Party, led by Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took control of the government
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Lenin died in Gorki, this is significant because Joseph Stalin succeeded him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
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Upon Lenin's death, this is significant because Stalin was officially hailed as his successor as the leader of the ruling Communist Party and of the Soviet Union itself.
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After the death of Lenin (January 1924) and the rise of Joseph Stalin, Trotsky gradually lost his government positions; this is significant because the Politburo eventually expelled him from the Soviet Union in February 1929.