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In 1905 the poor living conditions for the working class, the bad economic situation, and the defeat in the Japanese war led to the creation of unions, and large protests. When peaceful protestors were gunned down by soldiers of Tsar Nicholas II's army outside of the winter palace in St.Petersburgh on Bloody Sunday, the revolution had officially begun. This event paved the path for communist Russia, was the first time the tsarist autocracy was challenged, and led to the revolution of 1917. -
After the 1905 revolution, and bloody Sunday, Tsar Nicholas II was pressured into issuing the October manifesto, and created the duma in the parliament to represent the people. Although this calmed people down for a while, Nicholas II didn't actually fix the problems that needed fixing, like safe work conditions, better living conditions, and food shortages. Eventually this came back to bite Nicholas II as the Bolsheviks overthrew his government and killed him and his whole family, the Romanovs.
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Lenin was A textbook leader, A revolutionary with an iron will, great speaker, brilliant planner, and had many ambitions and goals including overthrowing the Russian provisional government with the Bolsheviks. -
At the peak of the outrage in Russia, the Bolsheviks (communist party) led by Vladimir Lenin swiftly took control of key government buildings with almost no bloodshed effectively taking control of the Russian government. They pulled Russia out of the world war, gave land to peasants, and banned private business's.
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After the Bolsheviks gained power, many noblemen, tsarists, and middle class workers were against the communist rule and were named "The Whites". One of the first events in the civil war was the Bolsheviks capture of Tsar Nicholas II. The Whites controlled areas of southern Russia, Siberia, and areas in the north. The whites also set up temporary governments to organize a counter revolution. The war ultimately ended in the Bolsheviks favour as they were better led and less divided. 1918-1922 -
Under Lenin's new economic policy gave peasant's opportunities to make money, these peasant's were given the name "kulaks". They were later persecuted and Stalin murdered thousands. -
Although Lenin's new economic policy was somewhat successful by recovering the economy, making peasants more successful, and reviving cities, the normal workers were still suffering. After Lenin's death and Stalin's rise to power, he was angered by the success of the kulaks among other issues, so he decided to put A five year plan in place. The plan increased agricultural production and quality of life for everyone, except the kulaks who were arrested, deported, or executed.
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After Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin rose to power by rising through communist government ranks and promoting himself as the "next" Stalin, to the Russian people. He eventually consolidates full control over the government by 1929.