Russian Revolution Timeline

  • Battle of tunnen berg (WWL)

    Battle of tunnen berg (WWL)
    fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War
  • The death of rusputin

    The death of rusputin
    he conspirators then bound him and threw him through a hole in the ice into the Neva River, where he finally died by drowning.
  • The march revolution end of monarchy

    The march revolution end of monarchy
    overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power.
  • the establishment of the provisional government

    the establishment of the provisional government
    established as a temporary government immediately after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917.
  • lenin's return from exile

    lenin's return from exile
    He decided to return to Russia to take charge of the Bolsheviks but found that most passages into the country were blocked due to the ongoing conflict.
  • The bolshevik take over

    The bolshevik take over
    revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government.here
  • The Russian civil war start

     The Russian civil war start
    It started after the February Revolution of 1917 which overthrew the Tsar
  • Assassination of the romanov family

    Assassination of the romanov family
    shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of ...
  • lenein's establisjment of the comintern

    lenein's establisjment of the comintern
    The Comintern was founded at a Congress held in Moscow on 2–6 March 1919.
  • reds win civil war

    reds win civil war
    By 1921, the Reds defeated their internal enemies and brought most of the newly independent states under their control,
  • lenein's new economic policy

    lenein's new economic policy
    called for a limited amount of free-market capitalism to ensure a more efficient transition to communism
  • lenin's death

    lenin's death
    Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and co-founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma.
  • trotsky flees to mexico

    trotsky flees to mexico
    Trotsky was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and his allies and lost his positions: he was expelled from the Politburo in 1926 and from the party in 1927,
  • stallin's first five-year plan

    stallin's first five-year plan
    The First Five-Year Plan called for the collectivization of agriculture and the expansion of heavy industry, like fuel extraction, energy generation, and steel
  • the great purge

    the great purge
    Between 1936 and 1938, three very large Moscow trials of former senior Communist Party leaders were held, in which they were accused of conspiring with fascist and capitalist powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders,