Russia between 1905 and 1939

Defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion

Mar 14, 1905

Creation of the Duma

Jul 14, 1905

The Duma is the Russia´s Parliament.It´s convoked once but no more times

First World War

Period: Jan 1, 1914 to Jan 1, 1918

The Tsar losts his power. Creation of a Republic

Jan 1, 1917

n February 1917 riots broke out in Petrograd. The Tsar lost support and control: his soldiers refused to fire on the mobs or deserted to join the rioting workers. In March the Tsar gave up the throne (abdicated) and a provisional government was formed under the leadership of Kerensky.

The Bourgeois February Revolution

Feb 14, 1917

The provisional government made promises to begin political and social reforms. Yet, on the other hand, they also kept Russia in the war in spite of the fact that most of the Russian population, especially the February protesters, were against the war

The Workers’ October Revolution

Oct 14, 1917

Leon Trotsky set up the Red Guards, a Bolshevik military force. On the 23rd of October (1917) a revolution took place. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, attacked the winter Palace in St. Petersburg and seized power.

Russia leaves the World War 1

Nov 14, 1917

Bolsheviks made peace with Central Empires: Treaty of Brest–Litovsk

Civil War

Mar 14, 1918

In 1918 Russia was divided into two factions: White Russians (the counterrevolutionary elements) and The Red Army (Trosky created one of the best armies in history through discipline, organization and ideology)
The whole Royal Family was executed

The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War

Mar 14, 1921

Introduction of a New Economic Policy

Mar 14, 1921

The new Economy Policy´s main characteristics:
• Peasants could sell surplus food produce and pay tax on profits. • It allowed small non-state-owned businesses (such as shops …) and they couldmake a profit. • Vital industries (coal, iron, railways …) stayed in state hands.

Formation of the USSR

Mar 14, 1924

Each republic had a government but they all had to be communist, and the system was run centrally by the Politburo (senior council)

Dead of Lenin

Mar 14, 1924

Stalin takes the power

Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party

Mar 14, 1927

Recover of the previous economy

Mar 14, 1928

Because the actual didn´t work

A Five-Year Plan set targets for all basic industrial factories and workers

Mar 14, 1928

Thanks this in 10 years the USSR had almost doubled its industrial output but the price was misery and low living standards for Soviet workers.

Stalin began collectivising all farms

Mar 14, 1929

It was important to increase food production to supply workers in towns and cities

Collectivization was completed and kulaks had been eliminated

Mar 14, 1937