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Czar Alexander
cxar alexander II finally frees the serfs and over the next 20 years he introduced a series of liberal reforms. -
alexander czar II death
assasination of czar by a radical russian socialist group. -
first russian revolution
in january workers march to royal winter palace to deliver a petition calling for improved working conditions. soldiers opened fire on the crowd leaving over 90 people dead in what became known as bloody sunday. -
russian enters first world war
the ruddian army is large but unprepared for war and suffers devastating losses against the german forces. -
second russian revolution
the russian people take to the streets desperate for food and demoralized by war. even the sildiers join the revolution. -
russian civil war
between the bolshevik red army and the anti-bolshevik white army. approximately 15000000 soldiers and civilians die during the war.the red army defeats the white. -
creation of the soviet union
bolshevik govenments in several republics including the russian soviet socialist republic, the largest of them all, join to form the union of the soviet socialist republics (ussr) which is lead by Lenin -
death of lenin
his death and the struggle for power between leon trosky and joseph stakin results in stalins victory and trosky's exile and assasination. -
stalin becomes leader of soviet government
between 1928 and 1940, stalin uses violence and fear to force the rapid industrialization of the country and the consolidation of private land into collective farms. -
ukraine holodomor
in 1932 and 33 ukraine experienced both severe droughts as well as the effects of what some now refer to as a planned famine by stalin and his plans for industrialization, higher agricultural output, and government ownership of land.the holodomor was designed in part to suppress ukrainian nationalism. -
purges of opponents
the purges of 1936 and 1939 during which joseph stalin eliminated his opponents within the communist party and the soviet armend forces.
