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Lenin's brother, Alexander Ulyanov, is hanged for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III
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Czar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness and his son, Nicholas II, becomes the ruler of Russia
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Lenin is arrested, kept in solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia for three years
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Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
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The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) meeting in which the Party splits into two factions: Mensheviks ("minority") and Bolsheviks ("majority")
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Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
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October General Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution.
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The promised parliament, the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise.
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Czar Nicholas II assumes supreme command of the Russian Army
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The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
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First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens
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Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.
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- Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government
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The Duma declares Russia a republic
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-The new Bolshevik government converts Russia from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar turning February 1 into February 14
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- The Winter Palace, the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars (abbreviated as Sovnarkom), led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia
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- Russian civil war ends
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-Stalin is appointed General Secretary
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- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
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Lenin dies and is succeeded by the triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev
