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Czar Alexander II is assassinated
the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary People’s Will group. The People’s Will, organized in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russian czarist autocracy. -
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
the last coronation service in Russia was held for Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, who would be the final Tsar and Tsaritsa of Russia. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins
Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday is the name given to the events of Sunday, in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. -
Russia withdraws from World War I
Russia signalled her withdrawal from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates
Nicholas abdicated on behalf of himself and his son. He and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer -
The february revolution
the February Revolution known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
took place in Petrograd, when everyone engaged in random armed show against the Provisional Government Compared to the showing of the 1 Revolution, the Provisional Government blamed the Bolsheviks for the violence brought about by the July Days and in a leader crackdown on the Bolshevik Party, the party was dispersed, many of the leaders arrested. The outcome of the represented a temporary decline in the growth of Bolshevik power and influence in the period before the 2 Revolution. -
The October Revolution
the October Revolution, officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution, and commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, or Bolshevik Coup was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Lenin That was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution. -
World War I begins
The war begins for Russia -
The Bolshevik Party changed its name to the Communist Party
the Bolsheviks refused to share power with other revolutionary groups, with the exception of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries eventually they suppressed all rival political organizations. They changed their name to Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in March 1918 to All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in December 1925 and to Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1952. -
The russian revolution begins
the russian revolution begins in a very violent manner -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
the Russian Imperial Romanov family and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment notably were shot, bayoneted and clubbed to death -
Russian civil war ends
Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia's role in World War I. He could not, however, avoid a civil war in Russia. The Bolsheviks were made to fight for control of the country. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
On December 29, 1922 a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Lenin dies
Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54.
