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Bloody Sunday 1905
- 22 January 1905
- Started as workers who were disgruntled by poor working conditions, economic slump and ongoing war with Japan
- Workers and Father Gapon marched to Winter Palace to plead to Tsar Nicholas II
- Tsar was not present and panicky soldiers led to the massacre
- 96 were killed (J.Llewellyn,2014)
- "make Russia both happy and glorious, and your name will be fixed in our hearts" Father Gapon 1905 Petition to the Tsar
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October Manifesto
Issues with people involving labour problems and political dissent are subdues for the time being by the Tsar agreeing to the formation of a representative parliament (Duma). These issues arose from the events of Bloody Sunday
Freedom of speech and conscience
Freedom of association and unwarranted arrest
An elected duma (parliament) which could block laws coming into focus although it could not enact laws -
Tsar Abdicates, Provisional Government begins
the petrograd insurgents forced abdication: army garrison in Petrograd joined striking workers which forced the Tsar to abdicate -
February Revolution 1917
- 8 March 1917
- Women's Day march: strikes and demonstrations growing over the next few days
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Order No. 1
- first offical decree of Petrograd Soviet
- directed the military to obey only the orders of the Soviet and not those of the Provisional government
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Lenin returns and publishes his April Theses
Lenin returns to Russia with aid from the Germans seeking to spark a revolution in Russia to cause Russia to leave the war. Lenin publishes his famous April Thesis - capitalism must beoverthrwn, no support should be given to PG, power should lie within the soviets, land and banks must be nationalised -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact/ German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact/ Nazi-Soviet Pact
Treaty of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Also, outlined the division of Poland between the Nazis and the Soviets. Stalin agrees to this pact, even though he hated the fascist, because he wanted to buy time to rebuild his military after the purges -
Soviet invasion of Poland
Promptly after Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1st the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. This was outlined in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi German invades Soviet Russia with 4.5 million troops over an 1,800-mile-long front, the largest in the history of warfare. This invasion by Hitler breaks the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, infuriating Stalin, waking the sleeping giant that is the Soviet Union
