Russian Revolution

  • Revolution of 1905

    Revolution of 1905
    The 1905 Russian revolution was sparked off by peacful protests the protest was said to be the turning point in the relationship with the Czar Nicholas the II.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday in Russia was a massacre in where armed soldiers fired upon an unarmed crowd of russian citizans protesting the Czar.
  • Creation of the Duma

    Creation of the Duma
    The Duma was the first council assemblies created by the Czar of russia.
  • Russo-Japanese War

    The Russo-Japanese War was the first great war of the 20th century Russia wanted a warm water point neat the Pacific ocean.
  • Russia enters WWI

    Russia enters WWI
    Russia entered the first world war with the largest rmy in the world. When fully mobalized it had over 5million soldiers.
  • Russia becomes a totalitarian state

  • Nicholas II abdicates the throne

  • March Revolution begins

  • March Revolution begins

    March Revolution begins
    The Czar was taken down from the thrown and great changes in Russia where being made.
  • Kerensky heads the provisional government

  • Lenin returns from exile in Germany

    Lenin returns from exile in Germany
    Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns after a decade of exile to take charge of the Russian Revolution.
  • Civil War Begins

  • Lenin Takes Power

    Lenin Takes Power
    As leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin takes over the throne turning it into the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the worlds first socialist state.
  • Assassination of Romanov family

    Assassination of Romanov family
    THe Romanov family was shot in Yekaterinber. The shooting was led by Yakov Yurovsky
  • Russia pulls out of WWI

  • Stalin comes into power

  • Trosky wins Civil War

  • Period: to

    Great Purge

    Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalins real and imagainary enimies and infuse all levels of soviet society.