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the revolution of 1905
The Revolution of 1905 made Nicholas II issue the October Manifesto, which transformed Russia from an unlimited autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. The Russian Empire’s many ethnic minorities grew increasingly restive under Russian domination. -
WWI in russia
Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers.though at the ending of war Russia could not arm all its soldiers, having a supply of 4.6 million rifles. -
the February revolution
The main events of the revolution took place in and near Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg). The then-capital of Russia, where long-standing discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing. -
reign of Nicholas II
Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia who served from 1894 to 1917. his reign came to and end when his family and him were killed by the Bolsheviks during the October revolution. -
Lenin and the great October revolution
The October Revolution, officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution in the former Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. -
The Soviet Union Under Lenin
He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his development of the ideology is known as Leninism. -
bloody sunday
Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.