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Russian revoltuion
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Protest broke out
Protestors protested about bread and food shortages and didn't leave when police told them to. -
Czar Nicholas II
It was the day Czar Nicholas II gave up his power and his son power to the throne. -
Provisional government
The Provisional Government was established, and Russia was left in their powers after Czar gave up power -
Politcial upheaval
Ukrainian nationalists respond to the political upheaval in Russia and form the Central Rada, or the Central Council. -
Amnesty
The Provisional Government announces amnesty for political prisoners. -
Grain Crisis
The Provisional Government issues a decree on grain monopoly. -
April Theses
Lenin presents his April Theses, his agenda for the continuation of the Revolution. He argues that the ruling Provisional Government is unacceptable because the workers, and the workers alone, should be the ones in power. -
Declaration of the Allies
Foreign Minister Pavel N. Milyukov sends a declaration to the Allies regarding the Russian Government's war aims. -
April days
The April Crisis. Mass demonstrations in Petrograd and Moscow against Pavel N. Milyukov's declaration of war aims. -
All power to the Soviets
Seventh All-Russian Conference of the Bolshevik party. Lenin's April Theses are officially the party's program -
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky arrives from America. -
Second Provisional Government
First Coalition Government, is formed. The seats are occupied as follows -
The First Coalition Government ended
On July 15,1917 the first Coalition government ended -
All power to the soviet
Mass demonstrators in Petrograd are making complaing for the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and want the Soviet to replace the Provisional Government. -
Bolsheviks demonstrators
Today the Bolsheviks are the demonstrators. Chaos ensues and approx. 400 people get injured.Bolshevik leaders get arrested. -
Prime minster resigns
Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov resigns as prime minister and minister of the interior of the Provisional Government. He had held this post since March1917. -
Military committee
The Petrograd Soviet forms the Military Revolutionary Committee -
Bolsheviks
They took over stragetic places and made their own government and took over. -
Council of People's Commissars
The new government withdrew Russia from the war with Germany -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The government signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to prevent German invasion. Russia sacrificed a quarter of land under this treaty. -
The taking of Tsar and his family
The Bolsheviks took Czar and his family into custody at Yekaterinburg. -
The Whites army
The counter-revolutionaries began to organize their own group called The Whites. -
The red army
Trotsky set upt he Red Army and began preparing to fight the Whites -
Russian civil war
The Reds and The Whites fought a bloody and violent civil war for the next three years. -
The Red Army wins
The reds win the fight against the whites
