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Progressive Bloc Forms
Progressive Bloc was a partnership of conservatives and liberals in the forth Russian Duma. They tried to push the imperial government to gain a series of reforms directed towards inspiring public confidence in the government and for improving the managing of Russia's effort in WW1. -
Order No. 1 Issued
Soviet Union issued Order No.1, directing the military to obey only the orders from the Soviet and not the Provisional Government, the Provisional Government was unable to revoke the order. -
February Revolution
The first stage of the Russian Revolution was happening. The monarchy was overthrown and replaced with the Provisional Government. This government was overthrown by the Bolvsheks in October of the same year. -
Tzar Nicholas II Abdicates
Tzar Nicholas II was the last emperor of Russia until he was forced to abdicate by the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms. -
Lenin Issues April Theses
The April Theses were a series of ten directives issued by Lenin when he returned to Petrograd. Calling for Soviet control of state power, the theses contributed to the July Days uprising and to the Bolshevik coup d'etat. -
Lenin Returns to Russia
Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Party returns to Petrograd after exile to take over the Russian Revolution. After his exile ended in 1900, he went to Western Europe. There he continued his revolutionary activity -
Duma Dissolved
Duma is a Russian assembly with advisory functions. The first formally established Duma was the State Duma, which was introduced into the Russian Empire by Tzar Nicholas II in 1906 and was then dissolved in 1917. -
Kerensky Becomes a Prime Minister
Kerensky's rise to power was swift, but he developed a reputation for effective leadership in whatever area of government he worked in. As Prime Minister he made two major errors. He made sure that Russia stayed in war that was detested in the country itself. The second was not to offer the peasants land. -
Bolshevik Revolution
Leftist revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, launched a coup d'état against the Dumas provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies took over government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd. Not long after a new government was formed with Lenin as its leader and was the worlds first communist state. -
Lenin Instated as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
After overthrowing the previous government, the Bolsheviks established a new administration, the Council of People's Commissars. Also know as "Sovnarkom". Lenin was decided to be is governing chairman. -
Allied Forces Arrive and Fight Alongside Whites
Also known as the Allied Intervention, this was a multi-national military expedition that took place during the Russian Civil War. Stated goals were to help the Czechoslovak Legion, to secure supplies of munitions and armaments in Russian ports and to re-establish the Eastern Front. After Bolsheviks withdrew from WW1, the Allied Powers military backed the anti-communist White forces in Russia. 1918-1922 -
White Army Forms in Opposition to Bolsheviks
The White Armies were military forces that participated in the Russian Civil War. They fought against the Bolshevik Red Army for control of Russia. However, unlike the Bolsheviks, the White Armies didn't have a single ideology, methodology or political goal. They were led by conservative generals with different agendas and methods. *Date is not exact, its meant to be late February -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central powers. This ended Russia participation in World War 1. -
Tzar Nicholas and his Family Execution
Late at night, Nicholas and his wife, Alexandra, and their five children along with four servants were told to dress quickly and go to the cellar in the house they were being held at. The family and servants were in two rows to take photos that were being taken to quell rumors that they escaped. Just then, a dozen armed men burst into the rum and gunned down the family. those that were still breathing were stabbed to death. -
Lenin's Attempted Assassination
Lenin was shot twice by Fanya Kaplan, after speaking at a factory in Moscow. Kaplan was a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin was severely wounded, but he survived. The attempted assassination set off a counterattack by the Bolsheviks against the Social Revolutionaries and other political opponents. -
Russia Declared a Republic
On this day, Russia was formally declared by the democratically elected Russian Constituent Assembly drafted and adopted the "Resolution on the form of Russian". Declaring Russia to be a democratic federal republic. -
White Army Permanently Defeated
The Red Army defeated the White Army of South Russia in Ukraine.The remains of the White frces commanded by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel were beaten in Crimea and evacutaed in late 1920. -
Lenin Dies
At the age of 54, Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union and the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, died of a brain hemorrhage. Lenin's body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near Moscow, Kremlin. Petrograd was renamed to Leningrad in his honor. -
New Economic Plans Announced
The Kronshtadt Rebellion convinced the Communist Party and Lenin for the need to retreat from socialist policies in order to maintain the party's hold on power. Accordingly, the 10th Party Congress in March of 1921 introduced the measures of the New Economic Policy.
