russian revolution

By hellopeoplez1

  • protesters on the street of st. petersburg- beginning of the petersburg revolution

  • tsar nicholas ii tries to shut down duma but fails

  • 200,000 workers on strike

  • tsar nicolas ii abdicates

  • duma forms a temporary government

  • vladmir lenin returns to russia

  • Period: to

    lenin and bolsheviks try to sieze power but fail

  • the october revolution- bolsheviks take power - vladmir lenin and leon trotsky become leaders

  • lenin creates secret police called the chekas

  • Period: to

    russian civil war between white army and red army- red army wins

  • bolsheviks lose general election - ignored the results

  • lenin changes name of bolshevik party to communist party

  • russia withdrawls from world war 1

  • romanov family killed

  • lenin shot twice in failed assasination attempt

  • red terror to get rid of pollitical opponents

  • Period: to

    famine in russia

  • new economic policy