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The Great Northen War
The Great Northern War, also known as the second northern war, started off with Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Polland challenged the Supremency of Sweeden to war. The whole way it started was by Sweeden expanding into the Baltic area, this didn't make the neighboring countries very happy. Due to the expansion to the Baltic area this is where the war took place. This caused Russia to have a strengthened military. After the war, Russia had won, and they exited with major power in the Baltic . -
The Decembrist Revolt
The Deceemrist Revolt is when Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev tried to launch a revolt agaisnt Nicholas I, but was unsucessful. Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev was a man from a poor family that formerly served in the army. Also recently after his father died he went to St. Petersberg to begin a literary career.He created many poems that were patriotic although they were powered by his revolutionary spirit. He soon became the head of a secret society . -
The Decembrist Revolt Continued
Soon after he attempted to launch a revolt, and was unsucessful due to Nicholas I supressing it soon after it was launched. After he was sent to jail, his poetry became popular and caused his way of writing to become more popular. -
Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Due to the rest of the world industrializing Russia was falling behind. The main reason that they were falling behind is because of the old ways of serfdom. This slowed down devolopment and caused factories not able to find workers. The vast majority of the population was serfs, and also people were starting to realize that Russia had to change to modernize. Then Alexander II emancipated the serfs giving them few rights, and allowing them to buy own land, The serfs had to pay high tax. -
The assassination of Alexander II
They killed him by fataling wounding him with a bomb while he was driving through the capitol. -
The Assassination of Alexnder II
Due to many people unhappy with the czar, people started to make speeches and go to 'the people'. Although these acts were silenced by either killing, or sending them to siberia. Then there was a more serious action, there was a party made called the Zamyla i Volya. This party was in two sides, assainate or focus on the pheasents. They soon split into two seperate groups and the terroist group was called the Narodnaya Volya. After many unsuccesful attempts, they finally killed the czar in March. -
The Russo-Japanese War
Then American president Theodore Roosevelt came in and made a treaty. This gave Russia rights to the port, but gave Japan the penisula. Also Japan got half of the island Sakhalin. Lastly Russia agreed to exacuate Manchuria. -
The Russo-Japanese War
As Japan ended its war with China, it had control of a penisula and Port Arthur. Some countries requested that Japan took men out of the port, and they did. Although soon after Russia moved into the port, and this angered Japan. On feburary 1904 Japan broke diplomatic relations with Russia, and launched missles at Russia ships by the harbor. After this the Russians suffered many defeats. Russia still fault, although all supplies and men were thousands of miles away.Finally Russia requested peace -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was the violent beginning of the Rusian Revolution. Bloody sunday was a masacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, where soldiers fired on workmen. These people were saying "god save the czar", although the czar was not at the palace. Nicholas' uncle Grand Duke Valdamir tried to stop the march. He did so by telling the police force to fire on the march. 100 people were killed by these shot, and several hundred were wounded. -
The Revolution of 1905
The Revolution of 1905 was basically the end to the czar. It started by the russians losing the war agaisnt Japan, this war was called the Russo-Japaneese War. By losing the war this exposed the czars, Nicholas II, weakness. Soviets, striking worker groups, took power in parts of St. Petersburg and Moscow. Nicholas attempted to compromise with them by giving them a representative in the government, although the czar was still superior. -
The Revolution of 1905
After Russias devestating involvement in WWI, the czar was forced to give up the throne. Soon after a provisional government was set in place. -
Nicholas II abdicates the Russian Throne
Nicholas II son takes over the throne, although a little more laid back than his father. Over and over the country suffered defeat at war. To silence all the rebellions he suggested the vote of a duma. Soon after Russia went to war wit Germany and Austria and suffered many defeats which caused people to get angered at the czar. Soon after the duma demanded that the czar steps down, and he did.He abdicated the throne on March 15, ending more than 300 years of autocracy. This was the last czar. -
The Revolution of March
This revolution was once again the end to the autocracy governemnt. The government was replaced with a provitional government. Then a group called soviets, basically soliders, deputies, etc., who claimed to represent masses of people. These soviets was how the revolution started.The military was very weak at this time, and the soviets told sailors to take control of the units arms and ignore any opposition. Soon after anarchy started spreading accrost Russia.The czar rule ended, and now Soviets. -
World War I
The Wars affect of russia was that origanlly they thought it would be a quick war, but it dragged on and on. Due to it being so long Russia was put under heavy strain due to the industries not being devolped enough to meet the demand in supplies for the war. The transportation system started to fail, it couldn't supply the front lines.The cities faced shortages of food and other goods due to the war. The world war almost caused russia to go into a depression.
