Russian Revolution

By 17MGMathiesen

  • The Beginning

    Alexander Ulyanov, is hanged for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III

  • Czar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness and his son, Nicholas II, becomes the ruler of Russia

  • Lenin is arrested, kept in solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia for three years

  • Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia

  • The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party meeting in which the Party splits into two factions: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks

  • Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution

  • A constitution is created, reflecting the promises made in the October Manifesto

  • World War I begins

  • Czar Nicholas II assumes supreme command of the Russian Army

  • The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd

  • The Winter Palace, the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars, led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia

  • Rasputin is murdered

  • Lenin returns from exile

  • The new Bolshevik government converts Russia from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar turning February 1 into February 14

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I

  • The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party

  • The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow

  • Russian civil war begins

  • Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed

  • Russian civil war ends

  • Stalin is appointed General Secretary

  • Lenin suffers first stroke

  • Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established

  • Lenin dies; Stalin will become his successor