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The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
In March of 1817 The February Revolution began. All though this revolution is called The February revolution it actually took place in march. The Russians began to revolt against their leader Czar Nicholas II. After he had set the smurfs free and the didn't have land to own for themselves. The Nobles were also upset because they lost their workers. -
Czar Alexander II is assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will
Czar Alexander, was killed in the streets of St. Petersburg, when a member of the ¨People's Will¨, threw a bomb that then detonated and took his life. This was not their first assassination, as they killed many other officials before getting to Czar. He was trying to liberalize, as well as modernize Russia, much to the people's hatred. Obviously, they were extremely displeased. He also made changes in the education system. -
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule. That same month, the new czar married Alexandra, a German-born princess who came to have great influence over her husband. Nicholas and Alexandra were crowned czar and czarina in May 1896. -
World War I begins
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During this time Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States. ensions had been brewing throughout Europe–especially in the troubled Balkan region of southeast Europe–for years before, so it was bound to happen. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
Lenin returns from exile from his country in 1917 and tries to get his country back together. Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander II. In December 1895, Lenin and the other leaders of the Union were arrested. Lenin was jailed for a year and then exiled to Siberia for a term of three years. -
Russian civil war begins
The russian Civil war began in October of 1917. The Russian Civil War tore Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that hated Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups were monarchists, militarists, and, for a little bit foreign nations. They were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. -
Russian civil war ends
The failure of the Whites in the civil war was mainly because they didn´t unite, although because of Russia’s large geography it’s hard to see how they ever could have had a united front. They were also outnumbered and out supplied by the Red Army, which had better communications. This failure allowed the Bolsheviks to make themselves rulers of the new, communist USSR, which would directly and substantially affect Europeans. -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
In November of 1917 the Bolshevik uprising failed. The Czar Nicholas II did nothing to help the people. It just made the country even worse causing the destruction of World War 1 To come. Provisional Government’s attempt to escalate the war effort, a collapse in the government ministry and a constant stream of Bolshevik propaganda condemning the government and calling for a transfer of power to the Soviets. -
The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
They then invaded the Winter Palace, where several government ministers were. Within hours, the Provisional Government had been deposed and its members had either fled or been arrested. But it soon was known that the Soviet revolution was actually a Bolshevik revolution; The October Revolution was a major event in world history with effects that were repeated through the 20th century. It plunged Russia into years of unrest, civil war, terror and famine. -
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
The Bolsheviks became increasingly popular with urban workers and soldiers in Russia after the February Revolution. The second Congress of Soviets approved the action and formally took control of the government. Immediately after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks refused to share power with other revolutionary groups. Then, they changed their name to Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in October 1952 -
Russia withdraws from World War I
In 1917 Russia withdrew from World War 1 in order to stop from people dieing. Vladimir Lenin made this decision because he ruled russia during this time. He could not see the rest of his people die over the cost of another country so by doing this he had saved his country’s people from dying. -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
There was a number of reasons. Counterrevolution. Petrograd has been a very political city with lots of monarchists, anarchists, socialists, liberals etc. That, made it easy to take power in such a split city, because it was easy to lose it as well. Petrograd is a sea port, placed nearby to new border with Finland. It was full of foreigners, including seamen and officers. In conditions of needing allies, in the Russian Civil War, this was really hostile and dangerous contingent. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. Crowned on May 26, 1894, Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule. In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty. This happened because, all of the things he was doing were thought to be wrong by the people. He was hated by many, for all of the what they thought were despicable, actions. -
Lenin suffers second stroke
Vladimir Lenin suffered a stroke in Dec. 1922 on the way to Moscow (Russia’s soon to be capital city). which was his second one. He had already suffered one and survived. He already was loosing much of his brain function from the first one. So having to experience another was not at all good for his mental health as a whole. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
In December of 1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union was formed. I was a smaller set of countries set up by Russia. Some of the countries found in the Soviet Union are Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Armenia,Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), and Ukraine. All of theses countries make up what was the Soviet Union. -
Lenin dies
Vladimir Lenin dies In January of 1942 from prison put in his drink by the man he mentored, Joseph Stalin. His body has been preserved for many years now due because so many people mourn him. He now rests in Russia today still and looks like he died yesterday because of how well he was preserved. Even after so many years of his death Vladimir Lenin still meant something to the people of Russia and the Soviet Union. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins.
Under the weakened Romanov Czar Nicholas II, who came to the throne in 1898, Russia had become more corrupt than ever before. They were scared of the fact that his line would not continue—his only son, Alexis, suffered from hemophilia. Nicholas had to deal with influence of characters such as Grigori Rasputin, the so called mad monk. Revolutionary leaders, most notably the exiled Vladimir Lenin. Russia’s resources were stretched to the breaking point by the demands of World War I.
