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Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution. In this events many people were killed, this protest began peacefully by the workers in St. Petersburg. -
World War I begins
The First World War killed 17 million people, traumatized a generation, overturned old empires and changed the world's political order. Russia became part of an alliance named Triple Entente. In August 10, 1914 Austria-Hungary invades Russia. -
Tzar Nicholas II takes command
In this event Tzar Nicholas II sent a letter to his uncle Grand Duke Nikolai. In his formal letter the Tsar thanked Nikolai (his uncle )for serving as Russian Army Commander-in-Chief, time later he announced however that he had now found time to take day to day control of the Russian Army, And Tzar Nicholas II became the new commander for the Russian Army -
Russian Revolution Begins
Russian Revolutions Starts and Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train. The Council of People's Commissars led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia. The revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations and attacks. -
The Bolshevik Party
In this event the Bolshevik party changes it's name to communist party. The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow. In June the Russian civil war begins. In July Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed. -
Russian Civil War ended
The Russian Civil War ended with the defeat of the White Forces, the Red Army's chief enemy, on the Crimean peninsula. The remaining scattered resistance was more or less a matter of mopping up for the Bolsheviks. -
Lenin and Stalin
Stalin is appointed General Secretary, Lenin suffers first stroke, Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics, and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established -
New Successor
Lenin dies and Stalin becomes his successor.
