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On January 9th, 1905, a workers demonstration, unarmed and led by an orthodox priest, were shot down by the Russian Imperial Army as they marched to the Winter Palace in hopes of presenting a petition to Tsar Nicholas II.
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The Russian Revolution lasted a total of 18 years, (counting the "First Revolution" from 1905-1907) during which the nation endured social and political revolution across the entire empire.
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Tsar Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto in effort to ease his unsettled population, promising them freedom of speech as well as an elected parliament (Duma), to take from his absolute power as a monarch.
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Tsar Nicholas redacted his promises of the October Manifesto through the Coup of June 1907, by dissolving the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire.
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In Petrograd, Russia, a series of violent protests involving the people and the troops began on the 23rd of February and lasted for eight days causing Tsar Nicholas II to step down from the throne, and thus resulting in the abolition of Russian monarchy which was promptly replaced by a Provisional Government.
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A telegram revealing the Provisional Governments plans to continue participation in the war is leaked among Russia's people, causing an increase in support for an opposing political party on the rise to power called the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin.
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In October of 1917 the Bolsheviks seized control of first Petrograd, then the Winter Palace, thus taking control of Russia and immediately implementing the Decrees on Land and Peace which saw Russia removed from World War One and drastically improved the lives of workers.
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On the third of March 1918, Bolshevik ruled Russia officially withdrew from the First World War, but lost 1/3 of the country's population and railway networks, as well as massive supplies of iron ore, coal, and food.
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The leader of the Russian Communist Party (formerly known as the Bolsheviks), Lenin, narrowly escaped an assassination attempted by a Socialist Revolutionary, which brought forth a wave of mass executions and arrests known as Red Terror.
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The previous policy of War Communism was replaced with the New Economic Policy, which the government planned to use temporarily to restore Russia's faltering post-war economy.
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January 21st, 1924, Lenin, who previously was the leader of the Soviet Union, died and was replaced by Joseph Stalin as party leader.
