Russian Revolution pd4

By JordanM

  • Surfs are freed

    Czar Nicholas freed the slaves in early 1861

  • Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

    Marxists people came together and formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

  • Economy slowed

    Russias economy slowed the country waged an unsuccesful war with Japan and social arrest grew.

  • Splitting.

    The Russian social democratic labor party split into two different groups

  • Bloody sunday

    Thousands of men, women , and children peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas' winter palacein St. Petersburg , the capital.

  • Uprising crushed

    Their army crushed an uprising in Moscow and police arrested the members of the St. Petersburg soviet, including the revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky.

  • Trotsky escapes

    Trotsky escaped in 1907 and returned to Petrograd in 1917

  • WW1

    Germany declared war on Russia.

  • The murder

    A group russian nobles loyal to the Czar murdered Rasputin.

  • Reunited

    Several workers reunited the soviet union

  • The February revolution

    Strikes and riots over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd.

  • Abdication

    The government forced Czar Nicholson to abdicate.

  • Leon returns

    Leon returned to Petrograd

  • Seizing power

    Army comander cheif made a bid to seize power

  • Chosen leader

    Trostky was chosen to lead the soviet in Petrograd in September

  • Taking control

    November 7, 1917 Bolsheviks took control of key positions in Petrograd

  • Russian congress of soviets

    All russian congress of soviets authorized the Bolsheviks to set up a council of peoples comissoners to run the government.

  • Nicholas killed

    Bolsheviks killed Nicholas and his familt in Yeaterburg in 1918

  • Reconcquered

    Soviet union reconquered period of the Civil war.

  • Forming of the SU

    Russian commmunist government formed the Soviet Union

  • Stalin becomes General secratary

    Stalin became General Secratary of the Communist party.

  • Head of the SU

    Stalin became head of the Soviet Union in 1924 after the death of Lenin, and remaind in power until his death in March of 1993

  • Recongnization

    United Kingdom recognized the Soviet Union in 1924 followed by the United States in 1933

  • Communist system ends

    Communist sytem ended in Russia in 1991