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Decembrist Revolt
Russian army officers led a revolt of around 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I. They did not want him to sieze the throne after his older brother removed himself from the line of succession. The rebels were called Decembrists because the event occured in December. The rebels instead wanted Constantine and the Constitution. -
Emancipation of the Serfs
An 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of domestic serfs. The emancipation reform was the first and most important of liberal reforms. The main reason the serfs were emancipated wasn't because of cuel treatments but because of the Crimean War. -
Revolution of 1905
After Bloody Sunday, many Russians were horrified at the news. Riots broke out in the streets and peasants looted and burned the homes of landowners. Czar Nicholas 2 agreed to establish an elected asssembly called the Duma. The Duma had little power and the reforms didn't resolve the basic problems Russia faced. -
Bloody Sunday
Father Georgi Gapon organized what was suppose to be a peaceful march of factory workers. They arrived to the csars palace in St. Petersburg. Their goal was to present a petition to Nicholas 2 that asked for better working conditons and political freedoms. Thousands of unarmed men, women, and children marched singing hymns and carrying pictures. A group of soldiers shot over 100 unarmed marchers after Father Gapon signaled the group to continue on. -
Russia Enters WWI
Russia had entered world war I after Austria declared war against Serbia because Russia had declared itself the guardian of all Slavic and or Eastern Orthodox people. The battle began with the Boer War. Russia's participation in the war lasted for a long time and saw many casualties. -
Rasputin Murdered
Rasputin was a monk who claimed to have special abilities to predict the future and have healing capabilites. He was summoned by the emperor and empress of Russia to heal their son's hemophilia. After succeding in this, they kept him around for other tasks. Many wanted him dead though because they thought that he was dirty and ruining Russia. This ultimately led to his long drown out death which resulted in him drowing. -
Tsar Nicholas II Abdicates
Tsar Nicholas II abdicates himself after the February Revolution of 1917. He and his family were imprisoned and later killed by the Bolsheviks. His abdication followed shortly after the Petrograd riots where demonstrators were overthrowing czarist officials. -
March Revolution
People were angered by the shortage of food and continuency of the war. Riots and stikes broke out in Petrograd, Russia. The government sent troops the end the disorder but many joined the protesters instead. Czar Nicholas 2 gave up his throne a week after the riots and the Duma set up the Provisional Government. This government was powerless and socialist revolutionaries formed soviets which had great influence. -
Bolshevik Revolution
Bolsheviks organized the soviets and called for a socialist revolution. Led by Lenin, they won support with a slogan of "Land! Peace! Bread!." After Lenin's arrest and then being freed, he announced peasants could keep their land and he signed the Treaty of BrestLitovsk, ending Russina's participation in WWI. -
Muder of the Romanovs
The Romanov family was first put on house arrest and then moved around to several locations until arriving at Ekateringburg in the Urals. Here they were told to move down to the basement where they would be safer. Soldiers from the Red Army entered the room and brutally murdered the entire family along with the family doctor and three servents. Many rumors are told about how the family members died and if all of them actually died. The decision to kill the Romanovs was made by the Bolsheviks. -
Treaty of Versailles
The treaty was a peace settlement signed after World War I ended in 1918. It was singed at the Versailles Palace near Paris between Germany and the Allies. It was negotiated amongst the "Big Three"...David Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson. The treaty satisfied the "Big Three" and brought about the League of Nations. -
Lenin Dies/USSR formed
Lenin dies in 1924 after suffering two strokes. He's worried about Stalin coming into power and still plans on setting up a communist state. In 1922, the communists renamed the country the Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans or the Soviet Union. -
Stalin takes power/Death of Trotsky
Trotsky was sent into exile by Stalin and later ordered to be murdered by Stalin's agents in 1940. Stalin takes power after Lenin dies and becomes dictator of the Soviet Union in 1925. He used his job as a general secretary of the Commnist Party in 1922 to gain supporters and put them into important positions.
