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The Battle of Tannenberg (WWI)
The Battle of Tannenberg was between Russia and Germany, Germany defeated the Russians entire second army and then cause the commanding general to commit suicide, Alexander Samsonov. -
The Death of Rasputin
A group of Russian nobles grouped up to kill Rasputin on December 30, 1916, in the basement of the Moika Palace, the St. Petersburg residence of Prince Felix Yusupov. They later found his body. -
The March Revolution
The March Revolution was caused because the Russian people wanted to overthrow the imperial government and make the Bolsheviks in power. -
The establishment of the provisional government under Kerensky
The Provisional Government was formed by the Provisional Committee in agreement with the Petrograd Soviet, despite protests of the Bolsheviks. The government was led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by Alexander Kerensky. -
Lenin’s Return From Exile
He decided to return to Russia to take charge of the Bolsheviks but found that most passages into the country were blocked due to the ongoing conflict. He organized a plan with other dissidents to negotiate a passage for them through Germany, with which Russia was at war. -
The Russian Civil War
The Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and anti-Bolshevik armies. -
The Bolshevik takeover in November
Members of the Bolshevik party seized and took over power in the capital of Russia. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
The Assassination of the Romanov family
he Russian Imperial Romanov family, Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were shot and killed the night of July 16-17, 1918. -
Lenin’s establishment of the Comintern
The Comintern was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
The Red Army Wins the Civil War
The Red Army seized the eastern port of Vladivostok and the Russian Civil War came to an end. -
Lenin’s New Economic Policy
Lenin's new economic policy was economic system that would include a free market system under state control, while socialized state enterprises would operate on a profit basis. -
Vladimir Lenin’s death
Vladimir Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage at the Age of 54. Hemorrhaging is when there is a lot of bleeding and it happens very rapidly. -
Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan
The first five year plan was a plan created by Stalin that wanted to rapidly industrialize the agriculture and the infostructure of the Soviet Union. -
The Great Purge
Thousands of people were accused of committing political crimes such as, espionage, wrecking, sabotage, anti-Soviet agitation, conspiracies to prepare uprisings and coups, those that were accused were executed by shooting or sent to the Gulag labor camps. -
Trotsky flees to Mexico
After Lenin's death in 1924, Trotsky was outsmarted by Joseph Stalin and his allies and lost the positions he had on them. He was expelled from the Politburo in 1926 and from the party in 1927, internally exiled to Alma Ata in 1928, and deported in 1929. He lived in Turkey, France, and Norway before settling in Mexico in 1937.