The Russian Revolution: Timeline

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    Russo-Japanese War

  • Bloody Sunday

  • Creation of the Duma

  • Russia enters WWI

  • March Revolution begins

  • Nicolas II abdicates the throne

  • Lenin returns from exile in Germany

  • Kerensky heads the provisional government

  • Civil War begins

  • Lenin takes power

  • Russia pulls out of WWI (Brest-Litovsk)

  • Assassination of Romanov family

  • Trotsky wins Civil War

  • Stalin comes to power

  • Russia becomes a totalitarian state

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    Great Purge

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    Great Purge