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Marxists Revolutionaries split
Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
Japan attacks again
Japan attacks Port Arthur, Manchuria because Russia broke the agreements made after the Russo-Japanese War. -
Russian Soldiers Attack Citizens
200,000 workers and their families approached the czar’s winter palace to demand for better wages. The Czar ordered the soldiers to open fire on the citizens. -
Czar Gets Rid of the Duma
The czar made a parliament, called the Duma, after Bloody Sunday, and when the parliament wanted to make Russia into a democracy the Czar immediately dissolved the Duma. -
Russia Joins the War
Russia joined WW1, even though the government was having trouble with the economy, and didn’t have enough of an army to fight the German army. -
Textile Workers Revolt
Nearly 200,000 workers swarmed the streets demanding that Russia leaves the war and that they get a better government form. The Duma gains control of Russia. -
Red Army Takes Russia
Bolshevik Red Guards storm the winter palace to take the Duma out of control, in which they succeeded. -
Peace Between Russia and Germany
Russian leader Lenin signed a treaty to get Russia out of WW1 and surrendered a large part of it’s territory in the process. -
Russian Civil War Over
Around 14 million Russians died in the civil war and in the famine that came after, and the Red Army survived and was victorious in the conflict. They now remain in control. -
Lenin's New Economic Plan
Lenin put aside a plan for a state-controlled economy, which they called the New Economic Policy. This is the stepping stones of making Russia into the communist Soviet Union. -
Russia Now Soviet Union
The country renamed itself as the USSR, and is now considered a part of the Communist Party. Lenin had a stroke, survived, however the power soon gets transferred over to Stalin.
