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The Reign of Nicholas II
Nicholas II was the last Tsar of the Russian Empire who ruled between 1894 and 1917 under the official title of 'Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russia's -
The 1905 Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed against the Tsar, nobility, and ruling class
4. WWI in Russia -
WWI in Russia
Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers -
The February Revolution
The February Revolution, known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917 -
Lenin and the Great October Revolution-
On November 6 and 7, 1917, leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government -
The Soviet Union Under Lenin
He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. -
Bloody Sunday-
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland