the Russian revolution

By Diana portillo

  • 1900

    tsar Nicholas 2 rules over the Russian empire with absolute power

  • 1904

    Russia suffer humiliating defeats in a war against japan which led to protest and calls for reform

  • 1905

    after bloody Sunday, Nicholas 2 agreed to allow a duma, or legislature for the people

  • 1914

    Russia entered ww1 and quickly suffered heavy losses in major defeats to Germany along the eastern front

  • 1915

    food production industrial output start increasing to one civil war levels

  • 1915 collapse of economy

    half of agriculture workers become soldiers; 600+factories closed because not enough workers/no transport...a lost of food/fuel/power wasted, inflationof money

  • 1916

    300,000 Russians soldiers have died

  • 1917

    revolts in petrograd forced the tsar to abdicate and a provisional republic was established

  • 1917

    lenin and the bolsheviks take control in petrograd and overthrow the republic

  • 1918

    red guards invade winter palace defense gave in without fight

  • 1918-1921

    bolsheviks fight and win a civil war against the white army

  • 1922

    lenin established the union of soviet socialist republics under the control of the communism party