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The 1905 revolution was the dissolvement of the Tsarist regime currently led by Tsar Nicholas II. This devolved the October manifesto (1905), written by tsar Nicholas II, which ended the Autocratic tsarist government and introduced constitutional liberalism into the leadership.
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Russia entered the conflict with the initial declaration of war against Serbia by Austria-Hungary.
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In 1915, Tsar Nicholas II took primary control of the army to heighten morale, leaving German-Born Tsarina Alexandra in control of the mainland.
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An Historically fatal, violent, 3 month long offensive orchestrated by Russia against Austria-Hungary, that suffered irrecoverable damage. Only ended due to lack of supplies, claimed to the fault of the tsarist regime by General Aleksey Brusilov.
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Rasputin was assassinated Late December 1916, by a peasant group tired of his climbing influence on the royal family.
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Trotsky created the Red Army, an extreme left (Bolshevik) fueled Army to protect the city of Petrograd against the Provisional government’s ‘White’ forces.
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With the dissolvement of Tsardom suddenly and unexpectedly coming to be, The provisional government was put into action led by the State Duma and a smaller zemstov system which was previously politically obsolete.
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The international women’s march in the streets of Petrograd on March 8th, 1917 turned into a mass strike and rebellion in the demand of peace and bread from their heavy sacrifice in the factories, jumpstarting the journey to ending Tsarist control.
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A week after the public demonstration, Tsar Nicholas abdicated (deserted) the throne of Russia, leaving it sovereign for the first time in centuries with an outlook for a people driven government.
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With help of German enemy agents, Lenin and his constituents return from their exile. Lenin uses the opportunity of the up and coming government to get public support for his push for communism.
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Bolshevik Visionary and Extremist, Vladimir Lenin produced a series of 10 theses that outlined the benefits that would come in the future if the ways of the detestable right-leaning and liberal governments were a pastime of Russia.
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The first convention of the different political groups active in Russia was held. Primarily consisted of pro- provisional government (Menshevik and/or Liberal) officials.
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A period of violent and virtually constant rebellion and insurrection in Petrograd against the Provisional government by the working class (Sailors, factory workers, and soldiers).
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An military coup d'état led by General Kornilov against the Standing version of the provisional government. Led to increase in Bolshevik support.
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The Bolshevik party took to the streets of Petrograd and demolished the existing provisional government’s forces, the ‘Whites’. They successfully took control of Russia through forced dissolvement of the Provisional government.
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secret Bolshevik police, used to threaten and coerce citizens
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Soviet did not agree to new elections, Bolsheviks disbanded assembly
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Agreement between Bolshevik government and central powers, Russia withdrew from WWI