Russian Revolution PD4

By RachaelH

  • Serfs

    Serfs were freed

  • Background to Revolution

    The Marxists formed the Russian social democratic labor party

  • 1905 Revolution

    Thousands of men, women, and children marched to Czar Nicholas' Winter Palace to deliver a petition

  • 1905 Revolution

    Armies crushed an uprising in Moscow

  • World War I

    Germany declared war on Russia

  • World War I

    A group of Russian nobles loyal to the Czar murdered Rasputin

  • World War I

    A group of Russian nobles loyal to the Czar murdered Rasputin

  • The February Revolution

    (February 25,1917 in the old Russian calender) Strikes and riots over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd

  • February Revolution

    Government forced Czar Nicholas to abdicate

  • October Revolution

    Trotsky is chosen to head the Soviet in September

  • Cease-fire

    Russia negotiated a cease-fire

  • Bolshevik Government

    The Bolshevik government moved Russia's capitol from Petrograd to Moscow

  • October Revolution

    The government signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • October Revolution

    The Communists won the revolution

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin became general secretary of Communist Party
  • Period: to

    The Aftermath

    The Russian Communist Government formed Soviet Union. Communist system ended in Russia in 1991