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Conflict of interests between Russian military liberals and the conservative tsar. This had major consequences for both of them.
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The communist manifesto was an essential guidebook for any socialist serious about overthrowing capitalism.
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The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic serfs. More then 20 million serfs received freedom.
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The Social-Democratic Party held that Russia could achieve socialism only after developing a bourgeois society with an urban proletariat.
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Nicholas II invaded Japan in Manchuria and lost.
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Uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.
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Tsar Nicholas II is forced to accept the October Manifesto allowing for a parliament called the Duma.
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World War I begins. Russia fights on the side of the Allies. Russia invades Germany.
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The Tsarist government is overthrown. The communist Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin take control in the October Revolution.
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The Russians exit World War I with the Brest-Litovsky Treaty. They give up Finland, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and the Ukraine.
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Tsar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks. The "Red Terror" begins as Lenin institutes communism. The Russian civil war erupts.
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Lenin announces his New Economic Policy.
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The Russian Civil War comes to an end. The Soviet Union is established. Red Army against the White Army.
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Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin becomes the new leader.
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The Soviet Union introduced collective farming in its constituent republics. Collective farming is a farm, or a number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the government.
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A list of economic goals, created by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism
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Stalin's Great Purge begins. Stalin eliminates any opposition and up to 20 million people are killed. This was a very tragic time for Russia.
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World War II begins. Russia invades Poland in an agreement with Germany. Millions of people died.
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Germany invades Russia. Russia joins the Allies.
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The Russian army defeats the German army at the Battle of Stalingrad. This is the major turning point in World War II.
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World War II ends. The Soviet Union controls much of eastern Europe including Poland and East Germany. The Cold War begins.
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The Soviet Union detonates an atomic bomb. They wanted to test this bomb out, the range it covers and the damage it causes.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs as the Soviets place missiles in Cuba.
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Detente begins as U.S. President Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet-Afghanistan War begins. The Soviets have little success against the Afghanistan rebels. They leave in 1989 defeated.
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Mikhail Gorbachev is elected General Secretary. He institutes freedom of speech and openness of the government as well as a restructuring of the economy.
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The Soviet Union is dissolved. Many countries gain their independence. The country of Russia is established.