Russian Revolution Timeline

  • Czar Nicholas II

    Czar Nicholas II assumes supreme command of the Russian Army
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War II.
  • International Women's Day

    International Women's Day
    In petrograd Women textile workers go on strike and gather in the streets to protest against food shortages.
  • Provisional Goverment Established

    Russia brought into power the Provisional Goverment, which promplty introduced freedom of speech and assembly
  • Ukrainian Nationalisms

    Ukrainian Nationalisms
    They respond to the political upheveal in Russia and Form the Centreal Rada or the Central Council
  • Political Prisoners

    The Provisional Government announces amnesty for political prisoners.
  • Lenin,Zinoviev, and Other Bolsheviks

    Lenin,Zinoviev, and Other Bolsheviks
    Arrive in Petrograd coming From Switzerland.
  • April Theses

    April Theses
    Lenin presents his April Theses, for the continuation of the Revolution.
  • Famine

    Grain crisis. The Provisional Government issues a decree on grain monopoly. Famine is in the air.
  • April Crisis

    Was a mass demonstrations in Petrograd and Moscow against Pavel N. Milyukov's declaration of war aims.
  • Pavel. N Milyukov

    Pavel. N Milyukov
    Foreign Minister sends a declaration to the Allies regarding the Russian Goverment's war aims.
  • Leon Trotsky

    He arrives from America
  • First Coalition Goverment

    First Coalition Goverment
    The Second Provisional Goverment is formed
  • Russia vs Hungary

    Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.
  • Kerensky's Failure

    Kerensky's Failure
    Unsuccessful military offensive on the Austrian front
  • Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov

    Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov
    Resigns as Prime Minister and Minister of the interior of the Provisional Goverment
  • Kornilov

    Kornilov
    refuses to come to Petrograd, He gets caged at Bykhov and later on escapes.
  • Third Conference of Petrograd Factory Committees

    Movement sharpened its conception of workers’ control.
  • October Revolution

    October Revolution
    Know in the Soviet Literature
  • Constituent Assembly

    Elections to the Constituent Assembly. Socialist Revolutionaries the largest party.
  • Council of People's Commissars

    Council of People's Commissars
    It was first established as the goverment of the Russian soviet Federed Socialist Republic under Vladimir Lenin's leadership
  • Germany vs Russia

    The Germans invade Russia which is all but defenceless as virtually the entire army has deserted.
  • The Communist party

    The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
  • Moscow Headquarters

    Moscow headquarters of the anarchists surrounded and attacked by Bolshevik troops
  • Lenin dies

    Death was said to be cerebral hemorrhage. Stalin will become his successor