The Russian Revolution

  • Nicholas II Coronated as the emperor of Russia


  • Rapid Industrialization
 / Communism

    The communist idea by Karl Marx leading to Russia people demanding greater representation.

  • Russo - Japanese War


    Reason for war was Japan expanding its influence in Korea and Russia refusing to accept it.
Japan attacked Russian fleet in Port Arthur.
Japanese won the Battle of Mactan and the Battle of Tsushima.
Peace Negotiations led by Sergei Vitter, Russia lost Port Arthur.

  • Bloody Sunday


    A priest Father Gapon led a procession through Russia's capital st. Petersburg to present a petition to the emperor.
The crowd was fired upon leading to hundreds of death causing riots.

  • New Prime Minister Apointed 
- Pyotr Stolypin


    He brought agri culture reform before being assassinated in a theater
.
  • Saint Petersburg was renamed to Petrograd.


  • Emporar Nikolas appointed himself as the head of the army.


    He left his wife Empress Alexandra incharge of the capital with his advisor Grigori Rasputin.
Rasputin was blamed for royal family corruption and assassinated.

  • Nikolas Abdicated


  • Russian Civil War


    The people were divided into Reds and Whites.
Red were communists, socialists, anarchists.
Whites were nationalists, tsarists, liberals, conservatives and allied powers.

  • Treaty of Brest-litovsk


    Trotsky and team of delegates secured peace with central powers.

  • The White Terror


    White General Kolchak was brutal and responsible for mass executions of dissenters.
He captured Yekaterinburg.
Executed along with his family.

  • The Red Terror


    The Red territory had greater levels of industrialization, better infrastructure, more population, etc. Bolsheviks began the red terror to control people here.
They shot protesters and Trotsky holding the family of the generals
.
  • Polish invaded Ukraine


  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) formed


  • Lenin Died


    Josef Stalin held the place of general secretary, highest political post in the USSR
.Trotsky and Stalin held important positions.

  • Trotsky exiled


    Stalin win the power and Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union.

  • Collectivisation

    The central government ran the farms and 90% of produce went to the government.
Stalin became a powerful tyrant.