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Russian Revolution

By amartinez93

  • Alexander II

    Alexander II
    Alexander II crowned emperor

  • Crimean War

    Crimean War
    Russia fights Britain, France, Sardinia, and Ottoman Empire in Crimean War; Russia forced to accept peace settlement dictated by its opponents.

  • Treaty of Aigun

    Treaty of Aigun signed with China; northern bank of Amur River ceded to Russia.

  • Treaty of Beijing

    Treaty of Beijing signed with China; Ussuri River region awarded to Russia.

  • Alexander II emancipates serfs

  • Army Reformed

    Army reformed Russian radicals go to the people.

  • Exchange

    Kuril Islands yielded to Japan in exchange for southern Sakhalin Island.

  • Ottoman Empire End

    Ottoman Empire End
    War with Ottoman Empire ends with Treaty of San Stefano independent Bulgaria proclaimed Russia forced to accept less advantageous terms of Congress of Berlin.

  • Alezander II

    Alexander II assassinated; Alexander III crowned emperor.

  • Nicholas II

    Nicholas II
    Nicholas II crowned emperor.

  • Labor Party

    Russian Social Democratic Labor Party established and holds first congress in March Vladimir Lenin one of organizers of party.

  • Labor party Split

    Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday massacre in January begins Revolution of 1905, a year of labor and ethnic unrest; government issues so-called October Manifesto, calling for parliamentary elections.

  • Russian Defeat

    Russo-Japanese War ends with Russian defeat; southern Sakhalin Island ceded to Japan.

  • First Duma

    First Duma
    First Duma (parliament) elected.

  • Pyotr Stolypin

    Pyotr Stolypin
    Pyotr Stolypin, prime minister since 1906, assassinated.

  • WWI

    WWI
    World War I begins.

  • Revolution

    February Revolution, in which workers riot in Petrograd; Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies formed; Provisional Government formed; Emperor Nicholas II abdicates; Petrograd Soviet issues Order Number One.

  • Lenin Returns

    Lenin Returns
    Demonstrations lead to Aleksandr Kerenskiy's assuming leadership in government; Lenin returns to Petrograd from Switzerland.

  • OUtlawed

    Bolsheviks outlawed after attempt to topple government fails.

  • Bolsheviks seize

    Bolsheviks seize
    Bolsheviks seize power from Provisional Government; Lenin, as leader of Bolsheviks, becomes head of state