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Russian revolution

By Npb4218
  • Nicholas II becomes Czar of Russia

    Nicholas II becomes Czar of Russia

    The last Czar is crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow.
  • Dissatisfied workers organize strike

    Dissatisfied workers organize strike

    The harsh factory work drove the population into an angry feud.
  • Revolutionary movements begin and compete for power

    Revolutionary movements begin and compete for power

    The Marxist revolutionaries then split into two groups, the Mensheviks who wanted popular support of the revolution and the Bolsheviks who were willing to sacrafice everything for a change.
  • Russia loses war with Japan

    Russia loses war with Japan

    The Japanese won the war, and the Russians lost. The war happened because the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire disagreed over who should get parts of Manchuria and Korea.
  • Revolution of 1905—Bloody Sunday

    Revolution of 1905—Bloody Sunday

    Father Gapon led a march to deliver a petition to the Tsar. Thousands of workers took part in this peaceful protest. The workers were not trying to overthrow the Tsar.
  • Russia enters World War I

    Russia enters World War I

    Russia entered World War I in the three days succeeding July 28, 1914 beginning with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, a Russian ally.
  • Centuries of autocratic rule by the czars

    Centuries of autocratic rule by the czars

    Czar took the title Emperor and Autocrat of all Russia and imposed autocratic rule which is a government run by one man.
  • Lenin Returns to Russia

    Lenin Returns to Russia

    Lenin returned to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.
  • March revolution

    March revolution

    The March Revolution was one of two parts of revolutions in Russia in 1917 that ended Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
  • Provisional government is established

    Provisional government is established

    It was formed when the tsar's government collapsed after protests over food shortages and unemployment gathered momentum in the last week of February 1917.
  • Bolshevik Revolution topples provisional government

    Bolshevik Revolution topples provisional government

    On Nov. 7, the Bolsheviks seized the lightly guarded Winter Palace and arrested the government officials who remained.
  • Bolsheviks change name to Communist Party

    Bolsheviks change name to Communist Party

    Lenin suggested they rename themselves the communist party
  • Civil war between red and white armies

    Civil war between red and white armies

    fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between the Red army who were communists, and the white army who opposed them.
  • Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne

    Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne

    Czar is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russia’s involvement in WWI

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russia’s involvement in WWI

    Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria) ending its participation in World War I
  • Lenin establishes New Economic Policy (NEP)

    Lenin establishes New Economic Policy (NEP)

    Lenin made the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control.
  • Russia is organized into several self-governing republics

    Russia is organized into several self-governing republics

    After the revolution occurred, Lenin organized Russia into several self-governing republics and named it Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Lenin suffers stroke

    Lenin suffers stroke

    Lenin suffered three bad strokes, and the last stroke occurred on January 21, 1924, and he was dead within hours.
  • Stalin becomes Dictator

    Stalin becomes Dictator

    In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he became the dictator of the Soviet Union, by manipulating and terrorizing others in order to destroy his opponents.

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