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The Great Northern War
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The Decembrist Revolt
A revolution created by a small group of army officers and nobles. They tried to overtake the Czar and his government. Their greatest desire was to start a constitutional monarchy. Czar Nicholas I hastily destroyed the uprising and executed five of the leaders and hundreds went into forced labor in Siberia. The reaction from Czar Nicholas I was harsh and banned all books from the west that could give off liberal ideas. -
Czar Nicholas Emancipates Serfs
Czar Nicholas II freed the serfs. Serfs gained little political rights and were allowed to keep their houses and thier tools. Even though they were freed, they had to buy highly priced land instead of having it given to them. With extremely high taxes, serfs were in dangerous debt, and still lived thier lives in cruciable poverty. -
Assasination of Alexander II
In St. Petersburg, Russia, Alexander II was assisinated. Czar ruled Russia since 1855 and tried to bring liberation and modernizing Russia. After his resenting and destructive outbreaks after strikes and riots, he was strongly begrudged by his citizens. The convicts of the assasination were executed and his son, Alexander III took reign. -
Russo Japenese War
Arguments for ownership of Korea and Manchuria between Russia and Japan broke out. Japan was victorious and pummeled Russia quickly. Japan was the first Asian power to defeat the European power. Russia went into an even bigger economic hardship from the strong defeat to Japan. -
Revolution of 1905
Riots swept the cities like wild fire. Peasants burned down hundreds of homes of landowners. Because of the violence, Czar Nicholas II created the "Duma" to try to end the ferocity. The assembly did very little and the minor reforms helped so little that barely anything changed with the economic bust in Russia. -
Bloody Sunday
Father Gapon lead a peaceful march to try to get better working conditions. Men, women, and children marched in this event singing "God Save Thy People" hoping for a freindly revolt. Soldiers holding rifles pointed them towards the crowd, but they kept going. Soldiers shot and over 100 people died with hundreds more severly injured. People blamed Czar for this event and despised him. -
WW1 (Russian involvement)
Russia joined the allies with Britain and France against the axis (Germany and Austria-Hungary). Russian industries were not developed enough to meet the need of supplies for war such as food, amo, and guns. One in three soldiers didn't have a rifle.Life-threatening food shortages hit the cities. -
March Revolution
Strikes and Riots expolded in the russian capital, Petrograd. livid crowds protested about wars and the food shortage. Citezens screamed "Bread and peace". Government sent in troops to control it but soldiers refused to shoot and hundreds even joined the protests. Just weeks later Czar Nicholas abdicates the thrown. -
Abdication of The Russian Throne
After years of struggle with economic disaster and suffrage, on March 15. 1917 Czar Nicholas resigned from his throne. The Bolsheviks later took control of the government after they overthrew the Provisional Government.
