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The Decembrist Revolt
Was staged in Imperial Russiar by army officers who led 3,000 Russian soldeirs. The rebels were called the Decembrists. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
The system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished. -
Nicholas ii becomes czar of Russia
Nicholas II inherited the Russian throne when his father died of kidney disease at the age of 49 on October 20, 1894. -
The Social-Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
There were two opinions in the social democratic labor party, this caused the split. The Bolsheviks wanted to be free of the czar were as the Mensheviks wanted to keeps the czars in power. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. -
The Revolution of 1905
The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that took place hrough vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military uprising. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
Very early in WW1 Russia invaded Germany, but the German army pushed the Russian forces back, and then fighting happened in Russia. Russia pulled out of the war in 1917. Russia was getting paid to fight in the war and as the country was out of money , they had to keep on fighting , this upset alot of people and soon riots and strikes broke out all over the country. -
Czar Nicholas ii abdicates the Russian throne
Czar Nicholas ii was forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrogards. A provisional government was set up in his place. -
The March Revolution
The March Revolution egan with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The unrest was triggered primarily by food shortages in the city, which were caused by the wider problems of a worsening economy and repeated failures on the battlefields of World War I. -
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace, overthrowing Provisional Government -
Alexander Kerensky becomes the leader of the provisional government
After the March Revolution Kerensky served as Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government. In May he became Minister of War. In July he became the Prime Minister until he was overthrown by the Bolsheviks. -
The Russian Civil War Begins
The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces -
Nicholas ii and his family are executed
During the early morning hours of July 17 Nicholas, his wife, children and servants were herded into the cellar of their prison house and executed. -
Vladimir Lenin dies and Josef Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Once in power, he collectivized farming and had potential enemies executed or sent to forced labor camps. Stalin aligned with the United States and Britain in World War II but afterward engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War. After his death, the Soviets initiated a de-Stalinization process. -
Bloody Sunday
26 civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
