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Life of Alexander III
Alexander was a praised Tsar and during his reign he made education more accesible. His father abolished serfdom -
Abolishment of serfdom
Alexander II abolished serfdom to boost the Russian economy and to modernise it, changing from a feudalist system to an almost capitalist one. But when it comes to the slaves, life didn't change that much: they didn't have any money, so they still have to work for their landowners in order to have a bed to sleep in and a mouth to eat. -
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LIfe of Nicholas II
Nicholas was the last Tsar of Russia. His reign was marked by the problems and manifestations of the peasants or mujiks of Russia. He was killed with the rest of his family in Ekaterimburg. -
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Life of Lenin
Lenin was the principal impulsor of communism in Russia. He finally made his dreams true when he created the USSR. -
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LIfe of Stalin
Iosif Stalin was the second dictator of the USSR. He is known because of his ferreous character and iron will. He transformed Russia from a poor country to the 2nd world power in a decade. -
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Transiberian
The transiberian was an idea of Alexander III. During his reign, 2/3 were built. It is a ferroviarian track that connects occidental Russia (Moscow) to oriental Russia (Vladivostok). -
Russo Japanese War
This war started when the imperialist ambitions of Russia and Japan collided. It took place in oriental Russia and the Yellow Sea. Japan decided to enter the war because the negotiations with Russia ended up being useless, so to protect their rule over Korea and other smaller land, they decided to begin a war. Japan ended up winning in September 1905. -
Bloody Sunday
When a pacific peasants manifestation stood in front of the Winter Palace, Nicholas' II uncle Vladimir thought it would be a good idea to shoot the manifestants. In the end, 200 people were killed by the Imperial Guards. This later served as a symbol of the oppresion the peasants suffered. -
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The Great War
The Great War was a result from the tensions built during the Imperialist era between the countries in Europe. It was characterised because of the use of gas and different experimental weapons. The beligerants were the Allied powers (England, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian one). -
Murder of Rasputin
Rasputin, a very estimated monk that was part of the highest spheres of the Russian nobility, was killed because of the rumors that told he had a voice in vital decisions of the government and a adulterous relationship with Alexandra Fiodorovna. The plan of murdering him was twisted because of his resistance to poison such as cyanide. He ended up being shot as a desperate solution. -
Division of Russian Marxism
The division of the Russian Marxism consisted of two ways of thinking: the Menshevik and the Bolshevik one. This division of ideas led to violence and antagonism between them, but in the end the Bolshevik one ended up being the most rewarded. -
February Revolution
It took place from the 8th to the 12th of march of 1917 (in Julian calendar from the 23rd to the 28th of February, hence the name) in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). It aroused spontaneously and was the event that led the way to the Soviet Union. Nicholas II abdicated two days later. The Russian Provisional Government started here. -
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Provisional Government
The Provisional Government was set after the February revolution. The only prime ministers that ruled were Georgy Lvov and Alexander Kerensky. -
October Revolution
It was the event that totally seized the power of the Russian government and marked the start of the Bolshevik rule and the end of the Russian Provisional Government. -
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Russian Civil War
It was a war between the partidaries of Communism (Red Army) and the ones of the Tsars (White Army). The Red Army finally won it. -
Treaty of Brest-Livotsk
It was basically a peace treaty between some of the beligerants of the Great War, specifically the Central Powers and the Soviet Union. It gave the power to the Central Powers to retrieve a lot of land from Russia and keeping it for their own use. It didn't last much, because the Central Powers were defeated by the Allies the 11th of November of the same year. -
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NEP
The NEP (New Economic Policy) was a capitalist oriented economic plan used by Lenin in order to boost the Russian economy, which was in ruins after the Civil War. It was finally abolished by Stalin and replaced by his own economic plan. -
URSS
The USSR (Union of Social Sovietic Republics) was the result of the Marxist and Socialist ideas in Russia. It was a centralized economy which experienced a huge growth in a very short span of time (8-10 years) under the rule of Iosif Stalin, who made the USSR become the 2nd world power at the time. It had an important role in the WWII but in the later XX century it fell into an economic stagnation. It finally ended in 1991. -
Trotsky's exile
Trotsky went into exile to Mexico after Stalin cleared all of the political opposition to him. He lived there until he was killed by the KGB (specifically Ramón Mercader, an spanish communist) when he was hit with an ice axe in the head. He wasn't killed at the moment and died one day later.
