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Progressive Bloc was an alliance of political forces in the Russian Empire and occupied 236 of the 442 seats in the Imperial Duma.
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The provisional government lasted approximately eight months, and ceased to exist when the Bolsheviks gained power after the October Revolution.
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The State Duma introduced into the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II in 1906. It was dissolved in 1917 during the Russian Revolution.
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The February Revolution was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.
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Soviet Order Number 1 was the first official order of The Petrograd (st. Petersburg) Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. The order was issued following the February Revolution.
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During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne. A provincial government is installed in his place.
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It was safer for Lenin to return to Petrograd.
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April Theses were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland.
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When the tsar's government collapsed, the members of the Duma set up the Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky. The Provisional Government never really ruled Russia.
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joined the Bolshevik Party in Russia whose goal was to overthrow the Provisional Government and set up a government for the proletariat.
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This was a government formed shortly after the October Revolution in 1917. Created in the Russian Republic, the council laid foundations in restructuring the country to form the Soviet Union.
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Political opinions in Russia formed their opposition to the Bolsheviks
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After the Bolshevik government withdrew from World War I, the Allied Powers militarily backed the anti-communist White forces in Russia
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declaring Russia to be a democratic federal republic.
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This was a peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers
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During the June 18 offensive, the Russian Army was defeated by the German and Austro-Hungarian forces as a result of a counter-attack.
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Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty.
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After speaking at a factory in Moscow, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot twice by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin was seriously wounded but survived the attack.
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This was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR.
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Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, died aged only 53, having suffered three severe strokes.
