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Alexander III favored autocracy and imposed strict censorship codes on published materials and written documents. To establish a uniform Russian culture, he oppresed other national groups withing Russia.
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Nicholas II continued the tradition of Russian autocracy but it blinded him to the changing conditions of his times.
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Russian Marxists split into two groups over revolutionary tactics.
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Bloody Sunday is known as the revolution of 1905. About 200,000 workers and their families approached the czar's Winder Palace carrying a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas II's general ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd. More than 1,000 were killed.
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Nicholas reluctantly promised more freedom.
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The first Duma met and its leaders were moderates who wanted Russian to become a constitutional monarchy similar to Britain.
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Nicholass II made the fateful decision to drag Russia into World War I.
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A group of nobles murdered Rasputin.
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The Russian Revolution began with an explosion.
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Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace calling themselves the Red Guards, took over government offices and arrested leaders.
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Russia surrenedered a large part of its territory to Germany and its allies.
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Civil War in Russia lasted from 1918 to 1920
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Lenin resorted to a small-scale version of capitalism called the New Economic Policy.
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Lenin suffered a stroke and Joseph Stalin took over as ruler.
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The government began to seize of 25 million farms in the USSR> It combined them into large, government owned famrs called collective farms.
