Russian Revolution

USSR under Stalin

1937 BCE

Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a personal dictatorship where the communist ideal was still alive but filtered by his powerful personality. He ruled over the USSR using three tools:
-Cult of personality.
-The party.
-The terror

Trotsky murder

1927 BCE

Stalin was content for Communism to stay
within just one country for the moment. Stalin controlled the party. Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party (1927).In Mexico, a fanatic spanish stalinst called Ramon Mercader killed Trotsky.

Lenin's die

1924 BCE

Lenin die in 1924 after introduce a new economy policy to restore order and increase prosperty after the chaos of revolution and a new constitution that establish the USSR.

Finish of the Civil War

1921 BCE

The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War in 1921. The Bolsheviks expected communist revolutions to break out all over Europe but, except for a small one in Germany, they did not. However, communist parties did exist in other countries.
As allies of the Soviet government, they worked for an international revolution from the Third International (Komintern).

Begin of the Civil War

1918 BCE

Russia was divided in two factions: White Russians and The Red Army.
Leon Trotsky was the creator of The Red Army.

The Workers' October Revolution

1917 BCE

Meanwhile the Provisional Government kept Russia in the war, Lenin wrote a document called the April Thesis, promising “peace, bread, land and freedom”.
Leon Trotsky set up the Red Guards, a Bolshevik military force. On the 23rd of October (1917) a revolution took place. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, attacked the winter Palace in St. Petersburg and seized power. Bolsheviks moved the capital to Moscow and made peace with Central Empires.

The Bourgeois February Revolution

1917 BCE

In February 1917 riots broke out in Petrograd. The Tsar lost support and control: his soldiers refused to fire on the mobs or deserted to join the rioting workers. In March the Tsar gave up the throne (abdicated) and a provisional government was formed under the leadership of Kerensky. A republic was declared.

Russia join the World War I

1914 BCE

In 1914 the Russian Empire joined World War I. Neither the economy nor the army were ready to face the German army. After a series of defeats, in 1916 the Tsar himself took control of the army. This was his biggest mistake.

The Duma

1906 BCE

The Tsar created a parliament called the Duma with the
promise of a more democratic government, but this did not happen.

Russia's war vs Japan

1905 BCE

Educated people believed that big reforms were necessary in Russia. In 1905 Russia´s defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion. Rebellion broke out, after troops fired on striking workers in the capital, St.Petersburg (Bloody Sunday).