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Marxists Revolutionaries Split
Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
Breaking Agreements
In the late 1800s, Russian and Japan signed some agreements over contol of Korea and Manchuria after competing for control for quite some time. Russia broke some of these agreements. In retaliation, Japan attacked Russia. -
Sunday of blood
200,000 worker and their families approached the Czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg with a petition for better working conditions and an elected national legislature. Tropps were ordered t fire upon the crowd. The event was named "Bloody Sunday." -
Duma
There proceded to be a series of stikes after Bloody Sunday. After these strikes the czar allowed for the creation of Dua which was Russia's first parliament. The Duma met for the first time in May, 1906. -
Unprepared War
Russia was unprepared for any war. They were unprepared both militarily and economicly. Despite this the czar dragged Russia into WWI -
The Strike of March
Nearly 200,000 textile workers stiked in Petrograd, At first Russian soldiers obeyed orders and shot at the strikers. However, later the Russian soldiers sided with the strikers. -
Stroming the Palace
Without warning armed factory workers stormed the winter palace in Petrograd. They took over government offices. Also during the raid they arrested leaders of the provisional government -
Signing a Treaty
After the Bolsheviks took control they signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This treaty ended fighting with the Germans. The treaty also angered many Russians because of the humiliating terms of the treaty. -
Civil War
After the traty with the Germans had been signed, the Red army (the Bolsheviks) focused on their enemies at home. The white army was the Red army's enemy. The White army was made up of multiple groups like people wishing to bring back the Czar, pro democtratic fighters, and more. -
Economic Policy Change
Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for communism. Lenin instead resorted to a small-scale version of capitalism called the NewEconomic Policy, or NEP. Nep let peasants sell their surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government. -
Lenin has a stroke
Lenin suffered but survived a stroke in 1922. This set in motion the ruthless competiotion for head of the communist part. Two notable men in the competition were Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
