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Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China.
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A group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre.
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Tsar promises duma.
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Issues with the people involving labor problems and political dissent are subdued for the time being by the Czar agreeing to the formation of a representative parliment.
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Peter Stolypin becomes Prime Minister.
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Rasputin called himself a holy man and a healer, and he helped heal Czar Nicholas' sick son.
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Stolypin was in the Operah House when he got assassinated.
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie set off a rapid chain of events: Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Slavic nationalism once and for all. As Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russi
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The Russian nobles kill Rasputin.
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Czar Nicolas II abdicates the throne, and hands it over to his brother Michael. Michael refuses the crown, and Russia becomes a state of the people.
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On March 8, 1917, Russia’s February Revolution (so named because of the Julian calendar that Russians still used at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg (Petrograd).
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he Russian Duma (parliment) becomes the new power in the country after most high ranking Czarist officals go into hiding.
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German military leaders shipped Lenin back to Russia
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New government formed after collapse of the first provisional government. The First Coalition, as it's named, is formed by all the major parties of Russia except the Bosheviks.
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The Ukrainians declare their independence from Russia.
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Trotsky denounces the German Peace Terms as unacceptable and walks out of the peace negotiations at Brest- Litovsk.
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Russia signed a treaty with the central powers ending their participation in WW I.
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Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party.
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Members of the land Soviet in Ekaterinbug murdered Nicholas II and his family
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Lenin seeing that Russia was falling apart due to western nations not having marxist revolutions, and the economy failing due to in part by his War Communism, implements the "New Economic Policy", known as the NEP.
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In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation.
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After the power struggle Stalin emerged victorious. Trotsky was expelled from the communist party and shipped off into exile in Siberia.
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The plan forced heavy industrialization through a command economy headed by the government.
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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a treaty of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
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Promptly after the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1st the Soviet Union invaded poland from the east. This was outlined in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
