Events Leadind Up to the Russian Revolution

By GehrmMat
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    The Great Northern War

    Countries were invaded until the Treaty of Nystad came into effect.

  • The Decembrist Revolt

    Almost 3,000 military officers revolted against Czar Nicholas I because of his conservative views. The revolt did not last long and the rebels fell to the military forces.

  • Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs

    Czar Alexander emancipates the serfs in the year 1861

  • The Assassination of Alexander II

    Killed by a bomb a while after signing a Manifesto to create the State Council.
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    The Russo-Japanese War

    Started with a suprise attack on Port Arthur from the Japanese. Ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth.

  • Bloody Sunday

    96 dead and 333 injured

  • The Revolution of 1905

    Strike at a Pulitov Plant started a wave of strikes across Russia
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    WWI

    Started with the assassination of the heir to the Austria-Hungary throne and ended with the Treaty of Versailles.

  • The March Revolution

    90,000 textiles workers started a strike and by the end of it all 400,000 workers had gathered to strike.

  • Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian Throne