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Decembrist Revolt
The Decembrist Revolt was a group of Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I while he was in power of Russia and his army stopped this fro happening. -
The Emancipation of Russian Serfs
The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic serfs. By this edict more than 23 million people received their liberty. Serfs gained the full rights of free citizens, including rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property and to own a business. -
The Social Democratic Party Splits (Mensheviks and Bolsheviks)
Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party. The RSDP (Russian Social Democratic Party) later split into Majority and Minority factions, with the Majority (in Russian: "Bolshevik") faction eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the Minority being the Mensheviks. -
Russian War with Japan
The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday is the name given to the events of Sunday, 22 January, 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to czar Nicholas II of Russia. -
Revolution or Russia
The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. -
Czar Nicholas II Abdicates the Throne
At the end of the "February Revolution" of 1917 Nicholas II chose to abdicate. He swiftly changed his mind after advice from doctors that the heir-apparent would not live long apart from his parents, who would be forced into exile -
Russian Revolution
Lenin remained the terrible of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, although at this point in the war his following in Russia was as few as 10,000 and he must have seemed no more than the leader of an extremist wing of a bankrupt organization. Lenin then executed the protests of Petrograd which set off the 1917 Russian Revolution -
Russian Revolution (Bolsheviks)
Lenin remained the enfant terrible of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, although at this point in the war his following in Russia was as few as 10,000 and he must have seemed no more than the leader of an extremist wing of a bankrupt organization. Lenin then executed the protests of Petrograd which set off the 1917 Russian Revolution. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Russian Civil War ends
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
