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Timeline of the Russian Revolution

By axp3955
  • February Revolution

    February Revolution

    Tsar Nicholas II abdicates, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty because of riots by women, striking workers and defecting soldiers,

  • The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow

  • Lenin returns from exile

    Lenin returns from exile

  • Trotsky returns from exile

    Trotsky returns from exile

  • The July Days

    The July Days begin in Petrograd with spontaneous protests against the Provisional Government; after the Bolsheviks unsuccessfully try to direct these protests into a coup, Lenin is forced into hiding

  • Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed

  • An assassination attempt leaves Lenin seriously wounded

  • Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies

    Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies

    The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies is formed

  • October Revolution

    The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd

  • The Winter Palace

    the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars (abbreviated as Sovnarkom), led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia

  • Change to the Gregorian Calender

    The new Bolshevik government converts Russia from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar turning February 1 into February 14

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I

  • The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party

  • The Russian Civil War ends

  • Stalin is appointed General Secretary

  • Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics

  • USSR is formed

  • Lenin dies; Stalin will become his successor