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when demonstrators clamoring for bread took the streats in the russian capital of of petrograd
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the troops of petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the up rising. some ecounters oppened fire and killed demonstrators.
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he returns exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
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a failed coup by General Lavr Kornilov, commander of the Russian Army
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the Bolsheviks were forced to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, This punitive treaty effectively handed over Finland, Poland, the Baltic provinces, Ukraine and Transcaucasia to the Central Powers, together with one-third of the old empire's population, one-third of its agricultural land and three-quarters of its industries.
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The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
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The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
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the civil war begins
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series of campaigns that threatened to crush the revolution,
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russian war ends
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Stalin is appointed General Secretary
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The Comintern engineers a communist revolt in Hamburg, Germany
