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russian revolotion
General strike. Students and many others are joining the activists in the streets. The crowd demands Russia's exit from WWI and the Czar's abdication. Shootings break out and revolutionaries are getting arrested. -
revolotion
Government troops are ordered to open fire on the protesters. The troops obey and hundreds are killed. -
russian revo
Soldiers in other cities join the revolt, many follow the demonstrators in the streets, others just go home, some shoot their officers. -
Grand Duke Michael
Grand Duke Michael ponders the situation briefly and then declines the job offer, which was smart but not smart enough to ultimately save his life. He will be killed on June 12, 1918. -
Ukrainian nationalists
Ukrainian nationalists respond to the political upheaval in Russia and form the Central Rada, or the Central Council. The Central Rada will issue their First Universal on June 23, 1917. -
The Provisional Government
The Provisional Government announces amnesty for political prisoners. -
Grain crisis
Grain crisis. The Provisional Government issues a decree on grain monopoly. Famine is in the air. -
The Central Rada,
The Central Rada, created March 17, 1917, issues their First Universal, declaring Ukrainian independence. -
Lenin sneaks back
Lenin sneaks back into the country and arrives in Petrograd -
The Petrograd Soviet
The Petrograd Soviet forms the Military Revolutionary Committee. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I -
The Bolshevik Party
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party -
The capital of Russia
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow -
family are executed
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed -
An assassination attempt
An assassination attempt leaves Lenin seriously wounded -
Russian civil war ends
Russian civil war ends -
Stalin
Stalin is appointed General Secretary -
first spoke
Lenin suffers first stroke -
second stroke
Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics -
The Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established