The Russian Revolution

By Ashton LaRhette

  • Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia

    Nicholas was the czar that ended more than 300 years of Romanov rule in Russia.

  • Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution

    A massacre that happened on a Sunday.

  • World War I begins

    The beginning of the first world war or WW1.

  • Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed

    It was the death of Nicholas ll and his whole family.

  • Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)

    Nicholas is not in power or control over russia anymore

  • The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd

    90,000 people men and women go on stike.

  • Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train

    Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander II http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lenin-returns-to-russia-from-exile

  • Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd

    Lenin goes back to Russia with the germans help in the war.

  • Russia withdraws from World War I

    The Russians stopped fighting in world war 1.

  • The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd

    http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/russianrev/section5.rhtml
    October 25 Kerensky escapes Petrograd Bolsheviks struggle all day long to capture Winter Palace Second Congress of Soviets convenes
    October 26 Provisional government is arrested early in the morning Lenin issues Decree on Peace and Decree on Land Congress approves Soviet of the People’s Commissars, with all-Bolshevik membership, as new provisional government

  • The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow

    Rusia changes the capital of their country to Moscow

  • Russian civil war begins

    revolution started in russia.

  • Russian civil war ends

    The end of the Russian civil war.

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established

    The creation of the Soviet Union.

  • Lenin's death

    He was supposed to be killed in 1921, but he was not. He died in

  • Lenin suffers from second stroke

    Lenin Had a second stroke and passes away on January 21, 1924

  • The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party

    They change their name to Communist party