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Reign of Czar Alexander III
Alexander III is known as the "powerful ruler peacemaker" because under his rule the empire remained at peace except for minor, although expensive, military big, important trips in central Asia. Relations with England were greatly improved, and France replaced Germany as Russia's friend. He died on Oct. 20, 1894. -
Reign of Czar Nicholas II
Nicholas II was the last powerful ruler of Russia under Romanov rule. His poor handling of Bloody Sunday and Russia's role in World War I led to his giving up and execution. -
Russo-Japanese War
Two nations arguing over land in china and the tensions led to a war. The two nations were Russia and Japan. Russia lost the land in china and became constitutional monarchy and it was embarrassing which is pushing Russia to industrialize. -
Bloody Sunday
200,000 workers marched to the palace to try and get living conditions. The Police open fired on the protesters, killing a lot of them. -
Establishment of the Duma
Started as a result of the 1905 revolution, the Duma was created by Powerful ruler Nicholas II because People were mad, and he wanted them to support him. -
Russia's Participation in WWI
July 31, 1914 - Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilization of its troops. Germany demands that it stop. August 1, 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization. -
Death of Rasputin
Rasputin was invited to Yusupov's palace, where he ate food and drank wine laced with cyanide. He was unaffected by the poison, so Yusupov shot him. Rasputin survived this gunshot and attacked Yusupov, so the other nobles shot him in the back three times. Rasputin still was not dead, so the nobles wrapped him into a sheet with his hands and feet tied and thrown into the icy Neva River. The autopsy revealed that he died from drowning because he couldn't release himself. -
Abdication of Czar Nicholas II/est. of provisional Government
When this happened a Provisional Government was put in place. This is what the population overthrew during the revolution -
Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The War was won by the Red Army and they started to make Russia a communist country. The Civil war allowed the Bolshevik Revolution to succeed. Red Army: Bolsheviks/Communist army
White Army: Against the revolution -
Stalin's rise to power
Stalin's rise to power, 1922-1927
- Manipulates his way into power despite Lenin’s concerns
-By 1928, Stalin is in total command of Communist Party
-Stalin will later become dictator of the Soviet Union -
Bolshevik Revolution
It started when armed factory workers stormed the castle without warning. This revolution started to propel Russia to become a communist country. -
Establishment of USSR
The Soviet Union had its roots in the 1917 October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Temporary Government which had replaced Powerful ruler Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed by an agreement between countries. -
Lenin's death
Lenin dies, 1924: setting up competition over his replacement
- Leon Trotsky, Red Army Commander
- Joseph Stalin -
Leon Trotsky's exile
After leading a failed struggle of the Left fighting force/bad feelings against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920's and against the increasing role of slow-working government departments in the Soviet Union, he was permanently removed from a country to Alma-Ata January 1928, and also permanently removed from a country from the Soviet Union February 1929.
