Russian Revolution

  • Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels write the Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels write the Communist Manifesto

    It was a political pamphlet written by Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx. Is about communism and how there shouldn't be classes and everyone should be the same. Bourgeoisie is the middle class. Proletariat is the workers. Class Conflict is the tension or struggle with in a class. There were two different classes one was the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Marx thought that the working class would overrule the capitalist class and establish a classless society.
  • Tsar Nicholas Inherits the throne

    Tsar Nicholas Inherits the throne

    Tsar Nicholas II inherited the throne in November 1894 after the sudden death of his father, Tsar Alexander III. The Khorana Tragedy a crowd crush on May 30, 1896. Tsar was a poor leader and he wasn't prepared he even admitted to not being ready to rule.
  • Bloody Sunday Protests

    Bloody Sunday Protests

    Peaceful protesters led by Father Georgy Gapon marched to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg delivered a petition to Tsar Nicholas II, but imperial troops opened fire on the crowd. Clergy is the body of all people ordained for religious duty. In St. Petersburg peaceful demonstrators led by Father Gapon were fired upon by imperial troops outside the Winter Palace, resulting in hundreds of deaths and sparking the Russian Revolution of 1905.
  • Russian Loss in Russo-Japanese War

    Russian Loss in Russo-Japanese War

    Russia suffered a decisive defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, losing significant military assets and manpower, culminating in the Treaty of Portsmouth and sparking domestic unrest that contributed to the 1905 Revolution. It had a spread of shock, humiliation, and anger.
  • Rasputin Killed

    Rasputin Killed

    Rasputin was a Siberian peasant- turned- mystic who had political influence in the Russian empire. Rasputin influenced Tsarina by healing her son. Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.
  • October Revolution

    October Revolution

    The second and final major phase of the Russian Revolution, in which the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seized power from the ineffective Provisional Government. This nearly bloodless coup d'état inaugurated the Soviet regime, leading to the establishment of the world's first communist state
  • Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia

    Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia

    Vladimir Lenin arrived back in Russia on April 16, 1917, after years in exile.Lenin was a Russian evolutionary politician. He was the head of the government from 1922 till his health. His promise was peace, land, and bread. He kept his promises short term to consolidate power.
  • Revolutions (Women's Revolutions)

    Revolutions (Women's Revolutions)

    Women's Revolutions can refer to specific historical events where women were the primary instigators, such as the Uprisings led by women in the Russian Revolution, or the Rojava Women's Revolution in modern times. Czar dismissed them as a "hooligan movement". It helped by giving women political and legal rights.
  • Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Russia signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918, ending its involvement in World War I. The Bolshevik government was forced to sign the harsh peace treaty, which resulted in massive territorial losses, including Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, as well as significant population and resource losses.
  • War Communism

    War Communism

    War Communism was an economic and political system implemented by the Bolsheviks in Russia during the Civil War (1918–1921) to centralize control and supply the Red Army. War Communism was a harsh political system.
  • Russian Civil War

    Russian Civil War

    A multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution. The Red Army is the Soviet Union Army and the white army is the Anti-Bolshevik. The Red army won the war.
  • Lenin dies, Satlin comes to power

    Lenin dies, Satlin comes to power

    Vladimir Lenin died on January 21, 1924, but Joseph Stalin did not immediately succeed him. A power struggle within the Soviet leadership, in which Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals, occurred over the next few years. Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953
  • New Economic Policy

    New Economic Policy

    Allowed limited private enterprise and capitalism to revive a war-torn economy while the state retained control of major industries. The biggest change was the reintroduction of limited capitalism by allowing them to sell surplus produce and individuals to run a small business for profit. Lenin did this for the goal of full state control.
  • Red Terror

    Red Terror

    The Red Terror was a campaign of political repression, mass arrests, torture, and executions carried out by the Bolshevik government in Soviet Russia, primarily through its secret police, the Cheka. Checka is the soviet unions version of the FBI. The terror was explicitly a form of class war, targeting entire social classes perceived as enemies of the state, including the nobility, clergy, landowners, intellectuals, Cossacks, and the bourgeoisie.