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1905 Revolution
In January 1905, a revolutionary process was unleashed in Russia that began on Bloody Sunday, when repressive forces fired on a peaceful workers' demonstration that resulted in more than two hundred deaths. -
The start of the first world war
How did the World War first begin?
Resultado de imagen de the start of the first world war
The spark that set off World War I came on June 28, 1914, when a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria), in the city of Sarajevo. The assassin was a supporter of the Kingdom of Serbia, and within a month the Austrian army invaded Serbia. -
The end of tsarims
The tsar and other Romanovs were executed by the Bolsheviks after the revolution. Bloody Sunday in 1905 and the Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War both helped lead to the 1917 revolution. After taking over, the Bolsheviks promised 'peace, land, and bread' to the Russian people. -
October revolution
October Revolution, also called Bolshevik Revolution, (Oct. 24–25 Nov. 6–7, New Style, 1917), the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime -
assasination of the tsar
Most historians attribute the execution order to the government in Moscow, specifically Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov, who wanted to prevent the rescue of the Imperial family by the approaching Czechoslovak Legion during the ongoing Russian Civil War. -
death of Lenin
On January 21, 1924 Vladimir Il’ich Lenin, the architect of the October Revolution and the “leader of the world’s proletariat,” died, having succumbed to complications from the three strokes that progressively robbed him of his faculties. He was not quite fifty-four. For more than a year before his death, the Communist Party and the Soviet government had soldiered on without him. Now the question was what purposes could the deceased leader serve.