Russian Revolution

  • Czar Nicholas is crowded

    Czar Nicholas is crowded
    After his father, Czar Alexander III, died, Nicholas II became Czar over all of Russia.
  • Lenin is arrested

    Lenin is arrested
    Lenin is arrested, kept in solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia for three years.
  • Vladmir Lenin is exiled

    Vladmir Lenin is exiled
    Lenin's brother had been killed a few years before for trying to kill Czar Nicholas' father. Lenin wanted to take over power from Nicholas, and he was arrested and exiled from Russia.
  • The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party meets

    The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party meets
    At the meeting the people were split into two groups. Some supported Lenin, and others supported a different leader.
  • Bloddy Sunday

    Bloddy Sunday
    Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
  • A revolution breaks out

    A revolution broke out in St. Petersburg, but Czar Nicholas quickly put an end to it. The day was called Bloody Sunday.
  • Rasputin is introduced into the aristocracy

    Rasputin called himself a holy man and a healer, and he helped heal Czar Nicholas' sick son. Still, Rasputin wasn't a good man, and many in Russia hated him, putting the people at odds with the Czar.
  • WW1 begins

    World War I began and the following year, Czar Nicholas took command of the Russian Army.
  • Rasputin is killed

    The plan to kill Rasputin seemed simple, but it took a lot of work to finally kill him.
  • Another revolution begins

    The people were unhappy with Czar Nicholas' rule of the country. They began protests and strikes, refusing to do their work.
  • Czar Nicholas tries to step down

    Nicholas tried to give up his throne and let his brother take over, but his brother refused. Other Russian aristocrats tried to make a temporary government.
  • Vladmir Lenin tries to take over

    Lenin came out of exile and tried to take over the temporary government, but he was chased back into hiding.
  • Lenin succeeds in taking over

    Lenin still led the split political party of the Russian Social-Democrat Labor Party, and his party soon moved in and took control of Russia.
  • Russia backs out of WWI

    Lenin signed a treaty, taking Russia out of WWI. Later that year he had Czar Nicholas and his family killed.
  • The Communist Party is developed

    Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party.
  • The USSR is established

    Lenin helped establish the United Soviet Socialists Republic, a communist country. He worked with Joseph Stalin.
  • Vladmir Lenin dies

    After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over his rule. He would rule for many years to come. The Russian revolution changed Russia and all of history, introducing communism into the modern world. However, communism didn't catch on as Lenin and Stalin had hoped. Instead, demo