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The Decembrist Revolt
About 3000 Russian soilders were led by army officials in Imperial Russia. This event took place in Senate Square, St. Petersburg and the square was renamed Decembrist Square after this event. The revolutionists were called decembrists because the revolt took place in December. This revolt happened because the people of Russia didn't believe that Nicholas l deserved the throne. The revolution failed because the tsar's forces were larger than the number of revolutionists. -
Czar Alexander ll Emancipates the Serfs
The emancipation of the serfs gave more than 23 million freedom which made Alexander known as a great czar to most. With this new freedom the serfs were now allowed to marry without consent, own property, and own businesses. Even though he gave many people freedom, he also took away power from many more which angered them and led to his assassination. -
Nicholas ll becomes czar of Russia
Nicholas ll became a czar after the death of his father, Alexander lll, who died from kidney failure. Nicholas didn't want to be a czar and said that he wasn't prepared but he had to anyway. Right after he became czar he married his wife and had kids to make sure that he had a heir to his throne. -
The Social-Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks had different views which ended in their split. These were then the two main branches of government in Russian socialist groups. The Bolsheviks then took power under Lenin and the Mensheviks were out of the picture. -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russian and Japanese went to war because Japan thought Russia was a threat to their strategy. Before this, Russia demanded that North Korea became a nuteral zone between them. The Japanese military beat the Russians and this hurt Nicholas ll as a czar because he wanted to stay in the war. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday started out as a peaceful protest in St. Petersburg but it ended horribly. The demonstraters were trying to get a popular assembly established and get better working conditions.Troops responed by firing into the crowds and killing thousands of people. In response to this event many workers went on strike in Russia. -
Revoloution of 1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905 started off as a peaceful protest. This protest was for better lifestyles and it was held in St. Petersburg. Many of the people were nervous because of Bloody Sunday. -
World War 1(Russian Involvment)
Russia entered the army with around 1.4 million soilders and that number soon jumped to over 5 million. With an army so big, Russia couldn't supply all of the necessary weapons which really hurt them in the war. Nicholas ll left Russia and put his wife in charge so that he could go command the army but that really hurt Russia. Revolutions broke out and Russia was left in deep debt after the war ended. There were also millions of deaths which made everyone despise Nicholas ll. -
The March Revolution
The March Revolution created the soviets and got rid of the czar autocracy. The revolution was in St. Petersburg and occured when the provisional government was set up. This took place because the government decided to continue fighting in the war and people didn't want them to continue. They didn't want them to continue because Russia was already in debt and didn't have the resources to continue. -
Czar Nicholas ll abdicates the Russian throne
Nicholas ll wasn't a very good leader and he cared more about his family than his duty as a czar. After Bloody Sunday and the many revolutions he was forced to abdicate the throne. He abdicated during the Febuary revolution after strikes and protests take place in St. Petersburg. -
Alexander Kerensky becomes the leader of the provisional government
Alexander was minister of justice in the provisional government, and became minister of the war in May, He then also became the second prime minister. He was only prime minister for a little bit because the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and he was then no longer anyone of authority. -
Russian Civil War begins
The Russian Civil War lasted three years. This war was against the whites (opposed Lenin) and the reds (supported Lenin/Bolsheviks). After Nicholas ll emencipated, many Russian empires declared their indpendence which then ultimately dragged them into the civil war too. In the end the reds ended up winning. -
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
Lenin came back from being banished from Russia and took his troops(Bolsheviks) to the winter palace. When they took the Winter Palace, they also overthrew the provisional government. This also started the dictatorship of the Bolsheviks. -
Nicholas ll and his family are executed
Nicholas ll was a big family man which is one of the reasons he was such a bad czar.He had five children and he married Alexandra Feodorovna. His son Alexei had hemophilia and he was the only boy born. The family was lined up and told that they were going to take a picture but some men came out with machine guns and shot the whole family. The men then took the bodies, buried them in an undisclosed location, and poured acid over them to make them decompose faster. -
Vladimir Lenin dies and Josef Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Lenin was the first leader of the Soviet Union and the revolution of the Bolshevik leader. Lenin died from a brain hemorage, and Petrograd was renamed Leningrad. Josef Stalin then steped up and took his place as leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin was also close to Lenin and helped him with the Bolshevik revolution.
