Timeline of Russian Revolution

By delzeel@bonduel.k12.wi.us
  • Marxists Revolutionaries Spilt

    Marxists Revolutionaries Spilt

    Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
  • Japanese Attacks

    Japanese Attacks

    Japanese attack Russia at Port Aruthur
  • Worker's Revolt

    Worker's Revolt

    About 200,000 workers approach the czar’s palace and fought for better working conditions.
  • The Duma

    The Duma

    First Duma met leaders who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy. Czar dissolved the Duma after 10 weeks
  • Unpopular Treaty

    Unpopular Treaty

    Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk where Russia surrenders its large territory to the Germans and their allies.
  • Citywide Strike

    Citywide Strike

    Women workers hold a strike, and soldiers shoot them at first but eventually side with them.
  • Bolshevik Red Guards

    Bolshevik Red Guards

    Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd. They called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards. Within days Lenin ordered that all farmlands be given out among the peasants.
  • Turning on Nation

    Turning on Nation

    Civil War takes place in Russia.
  • Joining of WWI

    Joining of WWI

    Czar decides to involve Russia in the war. Citizens are unhappy.
  • Change in Economic Policy

    Change in Economic Policy

    Lenin changes his state-controlled nation to a capitalist country called the NEP.
  • New Name

    New Name

    Russia was renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and were changed to a communist party.