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Czar Nicholas is crowned
After his father, Czar Alexander III, died, Nicholas II became Czar over all of Russia. -
Vladmir Lenin is exiled
Lenin's brother had been killed a few years before for trying to kill Czar Nicholas' father. Lenin wanted to take over power from Nicholas, and he was arrested and exiled from Russia. -
The Russian Social-Democrat Labor Party meets
At the meeting the people were split into two groups. Some supported Lenin, and others supported a different leader. -
A revolution breaks out
A revolution broke out in St. Petersburg, but Czar Nicholas quickly put an end to it. The day was called Bloody Sunday. -
WWI begins
World War I began and the following year, Czar Nicholas took command of the Russian Army. -
February Revolution
People protesting for bread in the streets of the Russian capitol, Petrograd. 90,000 men and women were on strike and refused to leave the streets. -
Provisional Government established
The Provisional Government was established, and Russia was left in their powers after csar quit. -
Lenin returns to Russia from exile
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
Russia backs out of WWI
Lenin signed a treaty, taking Russia out of WWI. Later that year he had Czar Nicholas and his family killed. -
October Revolution
Lenin's Proclamation (October 25th on old Russian calender -
Council of People's Commissars
The new government,Council of People's Commissars, withdrew Russia fromt he 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. -
Czar killed
The Bolsheviks took Czar and his family into custody, and later killed them at Yekaterinburg. -
The Whites
The counterrevolutionaries began to organize their own group called The Whites. -
Russian Civil War
The Reds and The Whites fought a bloody and violent civil war for the next three years. -
The Reds Win
The Communists win the civil war fought against the whites -
The Communist Party is developed
Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party. -
Works Cited Bubble
A treaty was signed between the central powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria) and the Soviet government. Under the terms of the agreement, Russia lost Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, most of Byelorussia, and Russian Poland. The treaty was annulled under the terms of the German armistice. -
The USSR is established
Lenin helped establish the United Soviet Socialists Republic, a communist country. He worked with Joseph Stalin. -
Vladmir Lenin dies
After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over his rule. He would rule for many years to come. The Russian revolution changed Russia and all of history, introducing communism into the modern world. However, communism didn't catch on as Lenin and Stalin had hoped. Instead, demo
