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Bloody sunday
Bloody Sunday took place in Russia in 1905. More than 3,000 people marched towards the Winter Palace to Tsar Nicholas II to show him a petition for reform. When he heard about the petition, he became worried and so the army shot their rifles into the crowd. This event caused the Russian Revolution. -
The October Manifesto
The October Manifesto was a document promising political reforms, issued by Tsar Nicholas II at the height of the 1905 Revolution. It came after unrest, strikes, violence and political debate about the future of Russia. It promised the formation a national parliament, elected by the people of Russia, to participate in the formulation and passing of laws.The Manifesto was met with approval by most reformists, and meant the revolution began to disperse or fade away. -
WWI and Tsar Nicolas II's role
Tsar Nicolas commanded the Russian army in the front lines during world war 1 and turned a bad situation into an even worse one causing to his downfall and the family around him. -
Rasputin's murder
Grigory Rasputin, a self-fashioned Russian holy man, is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his sway over the royal family. -
February Revolution
Russian capital, where longstanding discontent with the monarchy erupted into mass protests against food rationing on 23 February activity lasted about eight days. It involved mass demonstrations and violent armed clashes -
Formation of Provisional Government
when the tsar's government collapsed, the members of the Duma set up the Provisional Government, an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition, generally in the cases of new nations or following the collapse of the previous governing administration. -
October Revolution
led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. The leader lenin believed the government should be communist so in October the Bolsheviks took full control of the government -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Abdication of Tsar Nicolas II
During the February Revolution, Nicholas II, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place -
Russian Civil War
r was a civil war fought between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists. Other forces fought against both these groups or sometimes helped one against the other. The Red Army won this war because their army was better-organised and they held the best territory. After this war, the communists established the Soviet Union in 1922.
