Significance Timeline - Madhav Sharma

Bloody Sunday

Jan 22, 1905

Tsar's imperial guards opened fire and masscared 100s of peaceful protesetors when they were trying to deilver the pettion to the winter palace

Revolution of 1905

Oct 30, 1905

Strikes and uprisings and looting arose after the events of Bloody Sunday, forcing Tsar Nicholas ll to issue the October Manifesto which promised reform and a parliment (the Duma)

Russia Enters World War 1

1914

Russia entered world war 1, doing so they suffered massive military losses and many supplies shortages back in Russia

Febuary Revolution

Mar 8, 1917

Protests over food and supplies increased, leading to the resignation of Tsar Nicholas ll

Creation of Provisional Government

Mar 15, 1917

Duma created the first Provisional Government which marked a end to the czarist autocracy.

The November Revoultion

Nov 7, 1917

The Bolshevik party, aided by german money and a powerful private army overthrew the already crumbling Provincial Government

Russian Civil War

1918

Anti-Bolshevik forces aided by the Entree Powers tried to overthrow the Bolshevik Party, but failed.

New Econominc Policy

1921

Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy after economic collapse and peasent uprisings which allowed private trade and farming, easing war communism policies, which stabilized Russia