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Revolution of 1905 Start (Blood Sunday)
The Revolution of 1905 was peaceful protest lead by the Russian workers to receive increased safer working conditions. In addition, the shortage of food was another factor in the protest. Instead of the Tzar addressing them, he sent the army and the army started opening fire upon the unarmed citizens. The picture clearly imagines the moment of firing upon the citizens. Also the panic in the picture accurately reflects the emotion at time. -
Beginning of WW I
The start of WW1 mostly thought to be instagated by Austria-Hungarian people and many other countries brought in by alliances aggrements. Germany's plan of attack through Belgium ticked off the British as well. -
Czar Nicholas II take sole control of military operations
This when the Tzar took control of his army and marched them towards St. Petersburg to reinspire the army. -
Brusilov Offensive
This was one of the biggest and deadliest attacks from Russia during WW1, giving the Austro-Hungarians a major defeat. Although it was successful it hurt Russia as they suffered a lot of casualties and couldn’t repeat this success due to lack of resources. -
Assassination of Rasputin
The motive behind the murder was to free the royal family from the influence of Rasputin. -
Kornilov Affair
This event took place in August 1917, where there was an army coup against the Provisional government led by Commander in chief, General Lavr Kornilov, of the Russian army. -
Trotsky organizes Red Guard to defend Petrograd
The red guard was a volunteer military force that in March 1917 consisted of peasants, workers, soldiers, and sailors with the goal to protect soviet power. -
Constituent Assembly meets and is disbanded
The Constituent Assembly was created in 1917 and had a meeting for 13 hours and disbanded in 1918 but was gone by the All-Russian central executive Committee which resulted in the creation of the 3rd All-Russian Congress of soviets which held the power in governing Russia. -
April Theses published
he April Theses was published on April 7th, 1917, it contained 10 orders from Vladimir Lenin after he returned back to Russia after his exile. These orders were specifically for the Bolshevik members towards achieving the main goal Lenin had in mind. -
Return of Lenin from exile
Vladimir Lenin returned from exile on April 16th, 1917 and this was successful with help from the German government. With his return, hewanted to overthrow the provisional government in place of a communist type of government. -
July Day
This event took place in Russia, Petrograd during July 16-20, 1917. Chaotic demonstrations occurred there with many groups involved such as soldiers and workers because of opposition against the Russian provisional government and resulted in the government winning with Bolshevik leaders being arrested in the act. -
Wartime Communism created
War communism began in June 1918 which was protected by the Russian economic council, and it was introduced by Lenin to stop the economic issues that circulated Russia due to the civil war. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty that was signed on March 3rd, 1918, by the Bolshevik government and the Central powers. This treaty declared that Russia wasn’t going to participate in WW1 anymore and had other effects such as declaring the independence of several nations such as Ukraine. -
First All-Russian Congress of Soviets meets
The first meeting between Soviet workers and Soldier Deputies occurred from June 16th to July 7th in 1918. The meeting discussed the issues going on in Russia such as government control, attitude towards war, the life of low classes, etc. -
Red Terror
The Red Terror was carried out by the Bolsheviks for political suppression, and it was solely meant to stop any opposition against Lenin and his party. This led to serious violence which kept occurring in the 1930s from Joseph Stalin resulting in 3 million party enemies being killed. -
Kolchak (one of the White leaders) begins serious attacks against Reds from Siberia
Kolchak created an anti-communist type of government in Siberia and became a Supreme leader of All Russian land sea forces through the perspectives of the white movement. He failed his attacks mainly because he looked for support from foreign aid rather than the whites as he refused to work with them. -
Tambov Rebellion
The rebellion started with a resistance after the government was forced confiscation of grain from people. With grain being confiscated, the peasants would have significantly less grain to eat and sell, making them very unhappy about the situation. They had started with smaller protests and had evolved into guerilla warfare against the Red Army where 100,000 people (consisting mostly of peasants) had fought against the Red Army with 15,000 of those people getting shot and killed. -
Poles move toward Kiev
On April 25th, Polish and other forcers began to get unleash an attack against Kiev. There was a trade agreement on May 1 and wanted extensive exploitation of Ukraine by the polish state and capital. -
Soviets attempt to take Warsaw
Called the Polish – Soviet war, it had started soon after WW1 had ended and there was a territory dispute between the Polish and Russians that had dated back to being Polish and Russian wars in the 17th and 18th centuries as well as a not having the same thinking as far as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in spreading communism as far as they could into Europe. The war ended in 1921 with the treaty of Riga, where they remade the borders to better suite the polish demands. -
Kronstadt uprising
The Kronstadt uprising was an insurrection of many of the sailors, soldiers, and some civilians that no longer supported the government, the Bolshevik party had not been everything they were told it was going to be. They protested for economic changes, food shortages they faced, and for political oppression with the unjust treatment those not in the government faced. In the end they had been overrun by the Bolshevik forces and 2,000 of them had gotten captured and executed. -
Ending of Wartime Communism
The start to the new economic policy and the war no longer being in full swing as well as the people being unhappy about the current economic and food situation in Russia had prompted them to stop wartime communism. The food shortages created from giving soldiers all the food was the main reason it had not worked for Russia as well as the factories not being able to produce as much without the men working to produce hindered every aspect that no longer functioned well in the country. -
Ukraine brought under Soviet control
In 1922, Ukraine became a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and didn’t get the indolence it had until 1991. The Ukrainian Bolsheviks defeated the national government which resulted in creating the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. -
Treaty of Rapallo
Under the treaty, Soviet Russia and the German Republic had agreed to both renounce any claims they had against each other financially or territorially and to start with new, friendly diplomatic relations. This was important because they were now a stronger force together and had strengthened their military and economic ties on both sides greatly. The treaty was signed between the two countries in Rapallo, Italy. -
Formation of Soviet Union
After the revolution in 1917, there were four major socialist republics that had been set up on the territory formerly held by the Russian empire. They were the Russian and Transcaucasia Soviet Federal Socialist Republics and the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republicizes. They would come together to make the U.S.S.R. -
Lenin Dies
At the age of just 53, Lenin had fallen into a coma that he would never wake up from with the official reason for his death being a brain hemorrhage. After his death, Joseph Stalin was named to be the successor to Lenin and become the main leader of the communist party then the Soviet Union.