Russian Revolution PD4

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Jan 1, 1861

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serfs freed

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Jan 1, 1898

Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

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Jan 1, 1903

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split in two.

1905 Revolution

Jan 22, 1905

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"Bloody Sunday" took place on this date because many people were peacefully marching Czar's Nichlas Winter Palace with a petiton for better working conditions and democratically elected assembly's.

1905 Revolution

Dec 1, 1905

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Army crushes uprising in Moscow and police arrest members of St.Petersburg Soviet including revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky.

October Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1907 to May 1, 1917

Trotsky escapes then comes back to Petrograd and picked to be head soviet in September.

February Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Apr 1, 1917

Lenin lives in Switzerland then returns to Petrograd.

WWI

Aug 1, 1914

Germany declares war on Russia.

WWI

Dec 1, 1916

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Russian nobles loyal to the czar kill Rasputin a monk that deeply influenced the Czar.

February Revolution

Mar 1, 1917

Some soldiers revive Petrograd Soviet (first setup in 1905).

February Revolution

Mar 8, 1917

Strikes and riots break out in Petrograd due to food and coal shortages.(Feburary 28 on old Russian calender.)

February Revolution

Mar 15, 1917

Government forces the Czar which is Czar Nicholas to resign his throne.

October Revolution

Nov 7, 1917

(October 25,1917 on old Russian calender) Bolshevik-led army of workers,soldiers,and sailors take important positions in Petrograd.

February Revolution

Jan 1, 1918

Bolsheviks kill Csar Nicholas and his family a little while after the family was put into custody.