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Russian Revolution

By zwall52

  • Rasputin Assassinated

  • Petrograd Soviets formed

  • The March Revolution

  • Abdication of Czar Nicholas II

    Abdication of Czar Nicholas II

  • Communists control Russia

  • Bolshevik Revolution and seizure of Winter Palace

    Bolshevik Revolution and seizure of Winter Palace

  • Period: to

    Russian Civil War

  • Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia

    -Lenin agreeded after Trotsky asked him to
    -was signed to get Russia out of the war (WW1)
    -Russia had to give up some territory because of it
  • Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    -Peace treaty
    -allowed Russia to exit the World War 1 fighting
    -signed between the Central Powers and Russia

  • Royal family murdered

    People Shot:
    -Nicholas II
    -his immediate family
    -4 servants -Killed in the cellar of the castle
    -the girls did not die immediately because of jewel encrusted corsets
    -later they were shot in the head at close range