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April, 1903
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. -
February, 1904
Japanese attacked russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria -
January 22, 1905
About 200,000 workers and their families approached the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They carried a petition asking for better working conditions and more personal freedom. Then soldiers fired upon the workers and many were wounded or killed -
May, 1906
Russia’s first parliament - The Duma, met for the first time -
August, 1914
Czar Nicholas II made the decision to join WWI. They were poorly equipped and trained. -
March, 1917
Women in Petrograd led a citywide strike. In the next five days riots flared over bread and fuel shortages -
November, 1917
Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, calling themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards -
March, 1918
Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia surrendered a large part of its territory to germany and its allies -
October, 1920
About 14 million russians died in its civil war from 1918-1920. In the end, the red army won. -
March, 1921
Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy. Instead he implemented a small-scale version of Capitalism called the NEP -
December, 1922
Lenin suffered a stroke, which lead to Stalin overtaking power in Russia
