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The Russo-Japanese War
Russia and Japan competed for control over Korea and Manchuria. They both signed a series of agreements over the territories, but Russia broke them. -
Russia Industrializes
Nicholas's most capable minister launched a program to move the country foward. The government sought foreign investors and raised taxes. -
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The Trans-Siberian Railroads
Wiht the help of British and French investors, work began on the worlds largest continuous rail line. It connected European Russia in the west with Russian ports on the Pacific Ocean in the east. -
Czar Nicholas II
Nicholas became czar. He continiued the tradition of russian autocracy. -
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Lenin fled to western Europe to avoid arrest by czarist regime. He maintained contact with other Bolsheviks, then waited until he could safely return to Russia. -
Russia Industrializes
Russia became the worlds fourth-ranking producer of steel. Only the US, Germany, and Great Britain produced more steel. -
The Revolutionary Movement Grows
Russian Marxists split into two groups over revolutionary tactics. The more moderate Mensheviks wanted a broad base of population support for the revolution. The more radical Bolsheviks supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for change. -
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Crises at Home and Abroad
Russia had faced a series of crises. These events showed the czar's weakness and paved the way for revolution -
Bloody Sunday
200,000 workers and their families approached the czar's Winter Place in St. Pettersburg. They petitioned asking for better working conditions, more freedom, and an elected national legislature. Soldiers were ordered to fire the crowd, leaving more then 1,000 wounded and several killed. -
World War I (pt.1)
Nicholas II made the fateful decicion to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs. -
War World I (pt,2)
Nicholas moved his heaquarters to the war front hoping to rally his discourage troops to victory. -
The March Revolutulion
Women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. Riots flared over shortage of bread and fuel. Nearly 200.000 workers crowded the streets yelling "Down with the autucracy!" and "Down with the war!" -
The Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin and the Bolsheviks soon gained control of the Petrograd soviet, as well as the soviets in the other major Russian cities. People in the cities were rallying to call, " All power to the solviets". -
The Czar Steps Down
The March Revolution forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate his throne. The three-century czarist rule of the Romanovs finally collapsed. -
The Provisional Government Topples
Without warning, armed factory workers stormed the Winter Place in Patrograd. They called themselves the Bolshevic Red Guards, they took over government .offices and arrested the learders of the provisional government -
Bolsheviks in Power
Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. -
Lenin Restores Order
Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy. He restored to a small-scale version of capitalism called the New Economis Policy (NEP). -
Political Reforms
The country was named the Union of soviet Socialist Republics, in honor of the councils thats helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution. -
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Stalin Becomes Dictator
Salin began his ruthless climb to the head of the government. -
Stalin
As general secretary of the Communist Party, he worked behind the scenes to move his supporters into position of powers. -
Political Reforms
The communists created a constitution based on socialist and democratic principles.
