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The Decembrist Revolt
A small group of nobles and army officiers tried to overthrow the crzar's goverment. Czar Nicholas quickly crushed the uprising " Decembrist Revolt". He also exuquted five leaders and banushed hundreds more in Siberea. They became heroes later generastions of revolutionaries. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Alexender II freed the serfs. The freed serfs gained a few public rights and lwere let to keep their omes and their tools. However the serfs hadf to buy land for high prices instead of getting the land.he insited to build schools, cerorship, and improved health care. -
Nicholas II becomes czar of Russia
A new from of socialism had became popular among revolutionaries. The form of government was called Marxism by a German philosopher Karl Marx. The crackdown arrest increased. The workers would ask for better working conditions and some political freedoms from Nicholas II. -
The Russo-Japanese War
A conflict with Japan over Korea and Manchuria led to the Russo- Japanese War. The war in a stunning defeat for Russia and increased economic hardships at home. -
Bloody Sunday
On a snowy Sunday afternoon in 1905, thousands of unarmed women, men, and childeren joined Father Gapon and carried banners bearing pictures of the czar and his wife singing" God Save The People." As a group headed toward the palace, soldiers appeared. The father thought he saw the soldiers carring rifles so he signnaled the marchers to move on. When the gunfire ened the Father Gapon rose and said, Stand up!," to the machers many obeyed to the father and some remained on the ground. -
The Revolution of 1905
The eventa of Bloody Sunday as the massacre was called, horrified Russians and started the Revolution of 1905. In the countryside, peasants looted and burned the homes of landowners. The violence ended when czar Nicholas II finally agreed to elect assembly called the Duma and to make other minor reforms. -
The Social-Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Mezhraiontsy were also formed from this party. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
When World War 1 broke out Russia joined and its allies, Britain and France fighting Germany and Austria Hungary. Russia's industries were not developed enough to meet the need for war supplies. -
Alexander Kerensky becomes the leader of the provisional government
This government introduced freedom of speech and of religion. Russia would government with written laws rather than on czar makes decisions. -
The March Revolution
Riots and strikes erupted in Petrograd, the Russian capiotal. Angry crowds protested the war and the storage of food. " Bread and Peace," they shouted. Many soldiers refused to fire on the crowds however hundereds even joined the protesters. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
the czar stepped down when riots were organized by wokers who had organized themselves into groups called soviet. With the czar gone provision government was set up by Alexander Kerensky. -
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
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The Russian Civil War begins
From 1917 to 1921, civil war raged in Russia. The Bolshiviks soon called themselves face stiff opposition from many groups. Leon Trosky leader of the Bolshiviks trained the "Red Army." The Red Army won the war so Lenin became the czar after the war. -
Nicholas II and his family are executed
The execution of the Tsar and his family was carried out by the Ural Soviet which was led by Yakov Yurovsky. -
Vladimir Lenin dies and Josef Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Stalin forced Trosky into exile then became dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin's agents murdered later Trosky. Stalin rejected NEP government and quicly as possible went to socialist so government makes basic decisions for the economy. By 1939 most peastants working on the collective farms and to tend small plots of land for their own use.
