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In 1917
In this timeline it will contain events that occurred in 1917 most it mostly will contain information on the Russia during this year since the Russian revolution was very important as well as the first world war. These events descriptions will show what happened and why they happened since it was now a 100 years ago. -
Rise of Lenin
Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the architect, builder, and first head of the Soviet Union.Lenin spent the years leading up to the 1917 revolution in exile, within Russia and abroad. The Bolshevik’s quickly consolidated power, cracking down on dissent through the Cheka, or secret police and instituting the Red Terror, aimed at destroying monarchist and anti-Bolshevik symapthizersduring the Russian Civil War. -
Germany steals boats
This was three years after world war 1 began in 1914 and Germany resumed unrestricted U-boat warfare. All allied and neutral ships were to be sunk on sight. Over the next month close to a million tons of shipping would be lost. Lloyd George orders Royal Navy convoys to protect merchant ships destined for Britain. This made England a little more weaker and one major attack that Germany made. -
The removal of the Tsar
The February Revolution, which removed Tsar Nicholas II from power, developed spontaneously out of a series of increasingly violent demonstrations and riots on the streets of Petrograd (present-day St. Petersburg), during a time when the Tsar was away from the capital visiting troops on the World War I front. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk. Where they were awaiting slaughter in a short year time. -
Woman Independence day
The first day of the Russian Revolution was International Women’s Day, an important day in the socialist calendar. In noon there were tens of thousands of mainly women congregating on the Nevsky Prospekt, Petrograd, and banners started to appear. The slogans on the banners made forceful demands for change:''Feed the children of the defenders of the motherland,'' another said: ''Supplement the ration of soldiers’ families.'' The revolution was begun by women, not male workers.'' -
The Bolsheviks
The Bolshevik Revolution overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union. The October Revolution was a much more deliberate event, orchestrated by a small group of people. The Bolsheviks, who led this coup, prepared their coup in only six months. They were generally viewed as an extremist group and had very little popular support when they began serious efforts in April 1917. By October, the Bolsheviks’ popular base was much larger. -
The Milyukov note
A telegram was sent to the Allied Powers by Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov and it stated that the Provisional Government’s intention was to continue the war. The words form the note spread out eventually, resulting in protests and increased support for the Bolsheviks. Not soon after this happened, Milyukov consequently resigned and members of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks joined the Provisional Government. -
June offensive
Russian minister of war Alexander Karensky launches an offensive against Austria-Hungary forces in Galicia. Many soldiers return home to take part in redistribution of land. Although the Russian effort is initially successful, the soldiers soon refuse to leave their trenches and fight due to low morale caused by the Revolution. Soldiers’ committees debate orders and encourage soldiers to disobey officers. -
Lenin falls
Kerensky issues the arrest of Lenin, who goes into hiding. The printing offices of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda – the headquarters of the Bolshevik Central Committee – are raided, with many Bolshevik leaders arrested. The aborted uprising results in Soviets losing their control over the Provisional Government, signifying the end of the ‘Dual Power’ situation. This is seen by many as the point of no return for the peaceful development of the Revolution. -
Third Battle of Ypres begins in Flanders
The Allies launch a renewed assault on German lines in the Flanders region of Belgium, in the much-contested region near Ypres, during World War I. The attack begins more than three months of fighting, known as the Third Battle of Ypres. While the first, second battles at Ypres were attacks by the Germans against the Allied-controlled salient around Ypres–which crucially blocked any German advance to the English Channel–the third was spearheaded by the British commander in chief. -
Kornilov
A failed coup by General Kornilov, commander of the Russian army, takes place, when he orders troops towards Petrograd to counter the threat of the Bolsheviks. Prime Minister Kerensky presents Kornilov’s actions as an attempted right wing coup. It secures power for the Bolsheviks among Petrograd’s working classes and crushes the credibility of a coalition Provisional Government between socialists and liberals due to the Kadets and even Kerensky himself being implicated in the affair. -
The Russian civil war
The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. The war raged on for three years and tore Russia apart through the years of 1918 till 1921. The whites were aided by foreign troops like America and Uk which consequently made the reds more weak.
