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Czar Alexander II is assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will’
Czar Alexander was killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by intention of one of the terrorist revolutionary groups which was named “People’s Will.” The attack - which utilized a thrown bomb for a weapon - was a success among multiple other attempts to murder Czar Alexander II. The pervasive motivation to overthrow (or murder) Czar Alexander II was due to his aggressive opposition to popular movements of reform. -
World War 1 Begins
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. -
Russian civil war begins
Russia became three parties at war with each other, the Reds, made of the Bolsheviks intent to stay in power and remain outside of the war, the Whites, made of all who opposed the bolsheviks, with motivations varying from desire to stay in the war or parties wanting to be in power. The third group was the greens, who were peasants intent on remaining independent from the Reds or Whites. The civil war lasted around four years. -
Russia withdraws from the war.
By November 1917, significant portions of the Russian Army had laid down their arms, although some factions continued to fight. After months of negotiations, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk officially ended Russia's involvement in World War I. -
Russian Civil War Ended.
The war ended in 1923 in the sense that Red control of the newly formed Soviet Union was now assured, although armed national resistance in Central Asia was not completely crushed until 1934. The Russian Civil War has been described by some as the greatest national catastrophe that Europe had yet seen. Several parts of the former Russian Empire Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were established as sovereign states, with their own civil wars and wars of independence. -
Czar Nicholas gives up power.
In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoe Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk, where Nicolas and his family, they were executed by Lenin and his army. -
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
Citizens were upset with the amount of disruption in the market caused by Russia’s involvement in WWI, which resulted for them with food and other item shortages. Faith was also diminished by Russia’s lack of success, and the lack of respect for the Czar (who - .to make things worse - decided to lead the Russian army). People began to riot and rebel against companies and military leaders. These combined events became known as the February Revolution. -
Lenin returns to Russia
After the outbreak of the February Revolution, German authorities allowed Lenin and his lieutenants to cross Germany en route from Switzerland to Sweden in a sealed railway car. Berlin hoped, correctly, that the return of the anti-war socialists to Russia would undermine the Russian war effort. Lenin called for the overthrow of the provisional government by the soviets. -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
The Bolshevik uprising came to an end in July of 1917, when Vladimir Lenin had returned to Russia after being exiled from Russia, Lenin overthrows them over the course of the night, by dawn break the next morning, on July 17, Lenin arouse and loudly and proudly yelled that that the Bolshevik’s power was no more, and how they were finally the new rulers of Russia. -
October Revolution
The Bolsheviks were overthrown by the Provisional Government and take back the power in Russia, In the morning after the revolution started Lenin yelled out to his troops at sun rise that the Bolsheviks had been overthrown and now that his government was back in control, and hopefully things will finally calm down. Well for now at least. -
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
The Bolsheviks become intent to reform Russia into a Communist society, and in part with this they change their name to the Communist Party. They do this both to make their Communist goals apparent. But they also were intent to abolish the Bolshevik name, as during their time in power before they had been hypocritical of their intents and forced people to work for the government. -
The Capital of Russia changes to Moscow.
In 1918 the Soviet government transferred the capital back to Moscow and fostered spectacular economic growth in the city, whose population doubled between 1926 and 1939 and again between 1939 and 1992, In the war between the Reds, Whites, and Greens Moscow, (the red) won so now they decided to change the capital from Petrograd to Moscow. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
Nicholas II and his family were being kept prisoner by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg. In the Russian Civil War, the whites (who were opposed to the Bolsheviks) were leading to appropriate the land where Nicholas was withheld. Not wanting the whites to gain Nicholas, Bolshevik soldiers were sent to the house to assassinate the former king and his family. -
Lenin suffers second stroke
Lenin suffered his second of what would be four strokes in his lifetime. In this stroke his speaking and writing was impaired, but he recovered later on. The stroke obliged him to retire from leadership and promote Stalin into power. Lenin retired to his seasonal home (called a dacha) in the village of Gorki, six miles south of Moscow. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
The U.S.S.R was the successor of the Russian Czar rule, run under communist principles. The U.S.S.R was founded and lead by Vladimir Lenin. Due to the principles of communism, this reformed government made radical changes such as distributing all land to peasants and giving industrial workers mutual command over factories. -
Lenin Dies
As Lenin was reshaping the Soviet Communism, his health beginning to fail, pretty soon after that Lenin passed away in 1924 set off a power struggle in the Communist Party, Over the next four years, party secretary Joseph Stalin outmaneuvered and eventually ousted his rivals. By 1928, he was securely in power. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
Discontent welled up in Russia, both brodly for discontent with the Czar Nicholas II, and for poor working conditions in the industry. A protest led by the priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the Czar’s winter palace to make demands for better working conditions and more power. Soldiers of the Czar shot upon the protesters. Hundreds of citizens were killed or wounded. This act caused Russians all about to riot and rebel. -
Czar Nicholas II crowned
With the death of Czar Alexander III, his son Nicholas II was crowned into rule of Russia. He had no preparation to rule before he was brought to throne. He was a stagnant leader, opposed to change, which stirred tensions amongst citizens starving for reform and industrialization. He would derail popular ideas of reform proposed by the citizens. Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia.
