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Bloody Sunday
Cite On January 22, 1905, about100,000 working class men, women and children walked on St Petersburg towards the Winter Palace carrying a petition to present to the Tsar. The uprising by the people of Russia was calling for a change in their government. It started by the government's troops opening fire on marchers in St. Petersburg on January 9, 1905, a date which has since been called "Bloody Sunday". -
Milyukov resigns.
Aftert the government sends a note to Britain and France saying that they accpet full responsability for the war and accept to pay for all damages, soldiers and citizens of Petrograd demanded Milyukov's resignation, -
The October Revolution
The October revolution led by the Bolsheviks was to overthrow the Russian Provisional Government and give the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. -
German Peace Terms
The German peace terms is also known as The Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918. The treated state that Germany takes full responsability for the war and accepted to pay for all damages caused. -
Tambov Rebellion
The Tambov Rebellion was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War. Pyotr Mikhailovich Tokmakov, was a the leader of the rebellion and was a former officer of the Russian Imperial Army, The rebellion was caused by the forced confiscation of grain by the Bolshevik authorities, also known as the"prodrazvyorstka". -
Lenin dies
According to a new book on Lenin's life, he the Russian revolutionary and architect of the Soviet Union, died of syphilis, caught from a Parisian prostitute, It is said that this was kept a secret due to his painful death. Other sources claims that Lenin's death was due to intolerable strains of revolution and war. After Lenin's death Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev took over the country and only Stalin suceeded.
