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Nicholas ll became czar and was the last ruler from the Romanov family.
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A defeat for russia in the war led to their political instability.
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Czar Nicholas ll gave up his power on this date and ended the 300-year Romanov dynasty in Russia
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Bolsheviks staged a coup d’etat in St. Petersburg, overthrew the provisional government, and members of the provisional government fled or were arrested.
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Bolshevik Party officially renamed the Communist Party because they wanted to spread the communist revolution around the world.
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Russian signed a peace treaty with Germany and lost much of their western territory and a third of their population.
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'The Whites' surrendered in 1921 because they were outnumbered, disorganized, and poorly equipped.
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Russia becomes USSR and a new constitution is written. This makes russia a socialist state and was now supposed to be ran by the workers.
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Lenin died in 1924 at the age of 54.
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He ruled for 3 years and had complete rule of Russia,
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Ability to remove and appoint government officials
Once he gained control of the government, he exiled Trotsky to Siberia in 1929 -
He ruled the soviet union from 1929-1953 and was responsible for the next major extension of communist control.
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Was the second dynasty, after the Rurik dynasty, to rule over Russia, which reigned from 1613 until the abdication of Czar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution.
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