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Decembrist Revolt
The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising took place in Imperial Russia on December 26th 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his older brother, Constantine, removed himself from the throne. -
Nicholas II becomes Czar
Nicholas II became czar after Alexander III dies from bad health. Nicholas goes on to be the last czar of Russia -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. Many Russian soldiers died and it was a Japanese victory. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday, or Red Sunday, was a name given to the events happening on January 22, 1905 when unarmed protestors were fired upon and many were killed. -
World War I
Russians had considered Germany as a threat to their land and got involved in World War II. The Russians had not done well in the war due to their poor roadways, and one railway. Before the war ended, Russia had opted out with many casualties. -
The March Revolution
People in Russia rioted and 30,000 were out of work. Workers formed into groups called soviets and spent weeks outside protesting and rioting to get rid of the czar -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne
Nicholas II was forced to give up the throne as the ruler of Russia. Citizens demanded socialist reforms. Nicholas, his wife, and his children were all murdered so that there could be no more heirs to the throne. -
Russian Civil War begins
The civil war between the Bolsheviks, reds, and the Mensheviks, whites, waged on in Russia until 1920. The Whites represented all shades of anti-Communist groups, while the redds were pro-communism. The reds eventually won. -
Creation of USSR
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks had called for Russia to turn into what was then, the USSR. Constitutional basis for the creation of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics as a multinational state. -
Vladimir Lenin dies
Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54.
