Russian Revolution

By Cole_55
  • March Revolution

    The March Revolution was the first stage in the German Revolution
  • Nicholas II becomes Czar/Tsar of Russia

    He was crowned tsar in Moscow. Neither by upbringing nor by temperament was Nicholas fitted for the complex tasks that awaited him as autocratic ruler of a vast empire.
  • Revolutionary movements begin

    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 sacrifice everything for a change. The leader of the Bolsheviks was every powerful and later fled to western Europe to escape arrest.
  • Revolution of 1905—Bloody Sunday

    Up to 200 people were killed by rifle fire and Cossack charges. This event became known as Bloody Sunday and is seen as one of the key causes of the 1905 Revolution. The aftermath brought about a short-lived revolution in which the Tsar lost control of large areas of Russia.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution.
  • Russia loses war with Japan

    Japan won a convincing victory over Russia, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power. Russia's Baltic Fleet sailed halfway around the world only to meet its demise at the guns of Adm. Togō Heihachirō and the superior ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Battle of Tsushima.
  • Russia enters World War

    The Russian Empire gradually entered World War I. This began with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, which was a Russian ally. The Russian Empire sent an ultimatum, via Saint Petersburg, to Vienna, warning Austria-Hungary not to attack Serbia
  • Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne

    The army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk.
  • Lennen Returns to Russia

    lennen returning to russia because he brought the russian revolution to him.
  • Civil War between Red and White Armies

    The warring factions included the Red and White Armies. The Red Army fought for the Lenin's Bolshevik government. The White Army represented a large group of loosely allied forces, including monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism.
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russia’s involvement in WWI

  • Lenin establishes New Economic Policy (NEP)

    the New Economic Policy (or NEP) was a radical shift in Bolshevik economic strategy. It eased the harsh restrictions of war communism, the Bolshevik economic policy during the Civil War, and allowed the return of markets and petty trade.
  • Stalin becomes Dictator

    He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s.

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