The Russian Revolutions Timeline

By blakeb16

  • The Russo-Japanese War

    The Russo-Japanese War
    Russia and Japan competed for control of Korea and Manchuria. The Nations signed series of agreements over the two territories, but Russia broke them.. Japan then attacked at Port Arthur, Manchuria in 1904.

  • Tsar Alexander II passes the Amancipation Edict

    Tsar Alexander II passes the Amancipation Edict
    By passing the Amancipation Edict, Tsar ended serfdom in Russia, releasing more than 23 million people from serfdom and giving them their liberty.

  • Russia Industrializes

    Russia Industrializes
    Industrialization changed the face of the Russian economy. Russia's number of factories more than doubled between 1863 and 1900. In the 1890's, Nicholas's minister launched a program to "move the country forward". Government sought foreign investors and raised taxes to finance the buildup of Russian industries

  • Bloody Sunday: The Revolution of 1905

    About 200,000 workers and their families approached Czar's winter palace. The carried in their hand a petition for better working conditions, personal freedom and an elected national legislature. More than 1,000 were wounded and several hundred were killed.

  • World War I: The FInal Blow

    World War I: The FInal Blow
    Nicholas II decided to make the decision to drag Russia into WWI. Russia was not prepared and were no match for the German Army. Less than a year had passed, and more than 4 million Russian soldiers had been killed, wounded, or taken as prisoner.

  • The March Revolution

    The March Revolution
    Succeeded in bringing down czar. The March Revolution failed to set up a stronger government. They later established a provisional government, (or temporary goverment.. Woman textile workers held a strike, trying to stop the war.

  • Lenin's new Economic Policy

    Lenin's new Economic Policy
    Lenin put aside his plan for a state controlled economy, and instead resorted to "a small scale version of capitalism called the New Economic Policy. This allowed peasants to surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government.

  • Stalin becomes dictator

    Stalin becomes dictator
    Stalin was a general secretary of the Communist Party and worked "behind the scenes" to move his supporters into positions of power. Lenin believed Stalin was a dangerous man, and tried to get him out of power. He died in 1924.