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Czar Nicolas II Rule
Was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. He has often been referred to as Saint Nicholas the Martyr. -
Russian Marxists Split in 2 Groups: Mensheviks & Bolsheviks
The Menshevik and Bolsheviks were factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. They aimed to bring revolution to Russia by following the ideas of socialist theoretician Karl Marx. One, the Bolsheviks, successfully seized power in the Russian Revolution. -
Bloody Sunday In St. Petersburg
Bloody Sunday was the name that came to be given to the events of 22 January 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to the Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard when approaching the city center and the Winter Palace -
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. The Emperor was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and rep -
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Russia's Time in WWI
World War I (WWI) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War -
Beginning of Strikes
is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates. General strikes are characterized by the participation of workers in a multitude of workplaces, and tend to involve entire communities. General strikes first occurred in the mid-19th century, and have characterized many historically important strikes. -
Lenin Returns to Russia
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
Bolsheviks Win Control of Petrograd Soviet
The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies usually called the Petrograd Soviet was the soviet (workers' council) in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russia, established after the February Revolution as the representative body of the city's workers -
Start of October Revolution
was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 Old Style Julian Calendar (O.S.). -
Russian Leaves WWI (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty that the Soviet government was forced to sign on March 3, 1918 after almost six months long negotiations at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) between Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers marking Russia's exit from World War I. Signing of the treaty defaulted the Russia's commitments on the Triple Entente alliance. -
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces. -
Romanov Family Executed
The execution of the Russian Imperial family and those who chose to accompany them into exile–Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp, and Ivan Kharitonov–occurred in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918, on the orders of Vladimir Lenin, Yakov Sverdlov, and the Ural Soviet, to prevent them being subsequently used to muster the White forces in the ongoing Russian Civil War. -
Stalin Becomes Appointed General Secretary
Stalin was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920 -
Lenin Has 2 Stroke and Retires
His connections helped him attain high positions in the new Soviet government, eventually becoming General Secretary in 1922. Lenin grew critical of Stalin, and many other Bolsheviks at this time, but in 1922 a stroke forced Lenin into semi-retirement. Lenin recommended Stalin's dismissal. -
Bolsheviks Established Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
the world's first constitutionally socialist state. After a bloody civil war, at the end of 1922 the Bolsheviks emerged victorious and unified territories of the former Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). -
Lenin Dies
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established. Upon Lenin's death in early 1924, his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin. -
Stalin Creates "Socialism in One Country"
Socialism in One Country was a theory put forth by Joseph Stalin in 1924
