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Petrograd Soviets formed
When some thirty to forty socialist intellectuals and workers gathered in the Tauride Palace on the afternoon of February 27, 1917 to attempt to provide leadership to the revolution already happening in the streets of the capital, they harked back to the Soviet of Workers' Deputies thrown up by the 1905 Revolution. Declaring themselves a Temporary Revolutionary Committee of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies, they appealed to workers and soldiers. -
Bolshevik Revolution
At the beginning of February, Petrograd workers began several strikes and demonstrations. on February 22 workers at Putilov, Petrograd's largest industrial plant, announced a strike.
The next day, a series of meetings and rallies were held for International Women's Day. workers marched to nearby factories bringing out over 50,000 workers on strike. and caused riots that turned into revolution. -
The March Revolution
March Revolution was actually the February Revolution (Russia used the Julian calendar then). It was caused by Russia's terrible state in the war against Germany, extreme lack of basic necessities and an alliance of socialists and liberals who wanted reform (a democratic government, even the socialists largely did not call for a communist state at this time). Strikes in Petrograd were countered by the police which caused riots and general mayhem. It then spiraled into chaos. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates
The Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, signed his enforced abdication (in favour of Grand Duke Mikhail, who effectively declined power) on 15 March 1917 (2 March in the Julian calendar) at 3.05 p.m. -
Communist control Russia {year}
The story of Russia 1917-1941 is the story of how an incompetent autocracy was replaced, first by a popular revolution, then by a Bolshevik coup d’état, out of which grew a communist tyranny, which turned out to be perhaps the nastiest government in human History. -
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. -
Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia
In January 1918, the long-awaited Constituent Assembly convened. Those supporting Lenin and the Bolsheviks were a minority in the Assembly, and, after the Assembly's first day, Soviet militiamen with bayonets dispersed the gathering. Lenin defended the move by saying that "the people" would soon realize that the Constituent Assembly opposed their interests and that by abolishing the Assembly the Bolsheviks were fulfilling their goal of "All power to the Soviets." -
Royal family murdered {specific date}
The telegram giving the order to execute the russian royalty was signed by Yakov Sverdlov. Around midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the commandant of The House of Special Purpose, ordered the Romanovs' physician, Dr. Eugene Botkin, to awaken the sleeping family and ask them to put on their clothes, under the fake reasoning that the family would be moved to a safe location because of impending chaos in Yekaterinburg. the royal family was then ordered into the basement and executed by secret police. -
Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918. The German were reminded of the harshness of Brest-Litovsk when they complained about the severity of the Treaty of Versailles signed in June 1919.
