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Centuries of autocratic rule by Czar
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Nicholas II becomes Czar of russia
Nicholas II (1868-1918), the czar of Russia from 1894 to 1917, was a staunch defender of autocracy. A weak monarch, he was forced to abdicate, thus ending more than 300 years of Romanov rule in Russia. -
Dissatisfied workers organize a strike
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to Constitutional Reform including the establishment of the State Duma, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906. -
Lenin returns to russia
On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
Revolutionary movements begin and compete for power
according to historywithmrgreen.com Rapid industrialization stirred discontent among the people of Russia. The growth of factories brought new problems, such as grueling working conditions, miserably low wages, and child labor. The government
outlawed trade unions. To try to improve their lives,
workers unhappy with their low standard of living and lack
of political power organized strikes. As a result of all of these factors, several revolutionary movements began to grow and compete for power. -
Russia loses war with japan
In the late 1800s, Russia and Japan competed for control of Korea and Manchuria. The two nations signed a series of agreements over the territoriesbut Russia broke them. Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria, in February 1904. News of repeated Russian losses sparked unrest at home and led to a revolt in the midst of the war., -
Russia enters WW1
In 1914, Nicholas II made the fateful decision to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs. German machine guns mowed down advancing Russians by the thousands.. Before a year had passed, more than 4 million Russian soldiers had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. As in the RussoJapanese War, Russia’s involvement in World War I revealed the weaknesses of czarist rule and military leadership. -
Treaty of brest-litovsk ends Russiaś involvement in WW1
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Bolsheviks changed their name to communist party
They changed their name to Russian Communist Party in March 1918,to All-Union Communist Party in December 1925, and to Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1952 -
March revolution
In March 1917, women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. In the next five days, riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel. Nearly 200,000 workers swarmed the streets shouting, “Down with the autocracy!” and “Down with the war!”
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Czar nicholas abdicated the Throne
The local protest exploded into a general uprising—the
March Revolution. It forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate his throne. A year later revolutionaries executed Nicholas and his family. The three-century czarist rule of the Romanovs finally collapsed. The March Revolution succeeded in bringing down the czar. Yet it failed to set up a strong government to replace his regime. -
Provisional government is established
In November 1917, without warning, armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd. Calling themselvesthe Bolshevik Red Guards, they tookover government offices and arrested theleaders of the provisional government.Kerensky and his colleagues disappeared almost as quickly as the czarist regime
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Bolshevik revolution topples provisional government
Leading a nearly bloodless revolution the topple of that government lead to the soviet system. It took many years and a few different revolutions but finally they had won. -
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Civil wars between red and white armies
The fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists. Other forces fought against both these groups or sometimes helped one against the other. The Red Army won this war because their army was better-organised and they held the best territory. After this war, the communists established the Soviet Union in 1922. -
Lenin suffers a stroke
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Lenin establishes New economic policy
By the time 1921 came around, Russia’s economy had been maimed by the effects of War Communism. Socialism had not begun on a good note, and Vladimir Lenin was becoming concerned with the unfortunate state of the economy. His response to the poor economy he adopted and how he planned to improve it was called the New Economic Policy, or the N.E.P., which got its name from the fact that it was “new,” in comparison to the “old” Czarist economic “policy.” -
Stalin Becomes dictator
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign.
