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1905 Beguning of Russain Revolution
Men, women, and children peacfull marched into offices demanding better woring conditions. Forming an assembaly leading into the Russian Revolution. Many were woonderd by gun fire and others were killled. -
Bloody Sunday
All the shootings on this day when citicens requested better working conditions left the day being called "Blood Sunday" -
St.Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Duputies
In St. Petersburg, revolutionaries set up a soviet (council) called the St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies. The army crushed an uprising in Moscow and police arrested the members of the St. Petersburg Soviet, including revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky. -
Trotsky
Trotsky, who had escaped in 1907 went into exile. -
Germany declared war on Russia
The Germans easily overwhelmed a Russian army that was poorly trained and badly led. The war strained the Russian economy. Shortages of food and fuel resulted, increasing the level of social discontent. Within the army, untrained soldiers became rebellious. Many Russian army units refused to go on fighting the war with Germany. -
World War 1
Highlighted the weakness of Czarist Rule -
Murder of Rasputin
A group of Russian nobles loyal to the czar murdered Rasputin. -
Lenin's Life
Lenin, who had lived in Switzerland since 1914, returned to Petrograd in April 1917 -
Febuary Revolution
Strikes and riots over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd. This became know as "Febuary Revolution." -
Czar Nicholas resign from throne
The government forced Czar Nicholas to abdicate (resign his throne). It was because he was appart of the duma. -
Trotsky
Had returned to Petrograd in May 1917 and was chosen to head the soviet there in September. -
Nicholas and family killed by Bolsheviks
Nicholas and his family were later taken into custody. The Bolsheviks killed them at Yekaterinburg in 1918. It was because he was appart of the duma. -
Capital Change
The Bolshevik government moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow. The Bolsheviks also altered the name of their Russian Social Democratic Labor Party to the Russian Communist Party. It later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Constitution
In July 1918, a Soviet constitution went into effect. -
Communist
The Communists had won and the revolution was complete. -
Soviet Union
In 1922, the Russian Communist government formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union. -
United Kingdom
United Kingdom recgonizes Soviet Union in 1924. -
U.S.
United States recgonized the Soviet Union in 1933. -
Stalin's Power
In April 1922, Joseph Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party. From this position, he gained control of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin in 1924. Stalin remained in power until his own death in March 1953. -
End of Comunism and the Soviet Union
The Communist system finally ended in Russia in 1991, two years after it had collapsed in the East European countries. The Soviet Union itself also broke up.
