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Czar Alexander II is assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will’
Czar Alexander II was killed on the street in St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the terrorist group ¨The People's Will¨. The People's Will was organized to eliminate government officials to promote reforms in Russia. The main goal of the Terrorist group was to take out the Tsarist Autocracy. -
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
Nicholas II, the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow on the 26th of May, 1896. Nicholas II was not fit to rule which was bad news for Russian autocracy. He wanted to preserve the Tsar autocracy and ignored all calls of reform. When World War 1 came Nicholas was not strong enough as a leader to keep Germany in good condition and that led to the drop out of Russia. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
Bloody Sunday was the day when many unarmed men and women led by Georgy Gapon were fired upon near Winter palace because they wanted to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. This provoked public outrage and continued strikes. This had led to the start of the 1905 Revolution. Also being one of the key events leading to the revolution of 1917. -
World War I begins
The main causes of the start of WW1 were the incidents before and after the assassination of archduke Ferdinand. Convinced that Austria-Hungary was readying for war, the Serbian government ordered the Serbian army to mobilize, and appealed to Russia for assistance. On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the tenuous peace between Europe’s great powers quickly collapsed. With the new war technology like gas and the development of trench warfare came a destructive war. -
Russian civil war begins
The Russian civil war began because many groups formed to oppose the newly formed Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks, known as the reds, had control of Petrograd and Moscow and land between it, while the whites(everyone else) had control elsewhere. When the Fall of Nicholas II came white had opportunity to take more land. -
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
The riots and strikes started to occur over the scarcity of food in Petrograd. Their was 90,000 men and women who crowded the streets in protest and clashed with the police. In 1917 many russians had lost hope in the Czarist regime and the government began to get corrupted. But Czar Alexander II would continue to dissolve the Dumas with low success. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)
From the start Czar Nicholas II was never fit to rule and he was weak. In 1914, Nicholas led his country into another costly war, and discontent in Russia grew as food became scarce, soldiers became war-weary, and devastating defeats on the eastern front demonstrated the czar’s ineffectual leadership. And in March of 1917 He and his family are forced to give up power. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
In July, he was forced to flee to Finland, but his call for “peace, land, and bread” met with increasing popular support, and the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd soviet. Lenin returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. Lenin became almost a dictator for the new Marxist government. -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
In July 1917, soldiers, sailors, and industrial workers engaged in an attack on the Russian Provisional Government. The Provisional Government blamed the Bolsheviks for the violence brought about by the July Days and in a subsequent crackdown on the Bolshevik Party, dispersing them. Lenin fled to Finland to resist arrest from the Government. -
The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
Bolsheviks sent troops to march on Petrograd. They wanted to take control of the Provisional Government and destroy the Petrograd Soviet. The bolsheviks began to gain popularity among Russians and they began to take control of cities one by one. -
Russia withdraws from World War I
A group of Communists led by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks, overthrew the government in November 1917 and created a Communist government. This led Russia to pull out of WW1 and for there to be a start of the revolution. Lenin's plan was to build up the communist government until Russia would leave WW1. -
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
After the Bolsheviks won at the October revolution. They changed their name to include the word communist. It was held in Petrograd along with the consideration of having a peace treaty with Germany. -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
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Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
Late on the night of July 16, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children and four servants were ordered to go down to the cellar of the house in which they were being held. There, the family and servants were arranged for a photograph they were told was being taken to quell rumors that they had escaped. But shortly after a man came in firing shots and gunning down the whole family. -
Russian civil war ends
The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism and alternative forms of socialism, each with democratic and anti democratic variants. They were the main bulk of the Russian civil war with many intervening armies and nations. The bolsheviks took the Win here. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
After the Russian Revolutionary war the USSR was established. The Soviet Union grew into one of the world’s most powerful and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics–Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. -
Lenin Dies
Lenin was the first leader of the Soviet Union, and had died at the age of 54 to a brain hemorrhage. After the death of Lenin he was embalmed. Petrograd had changed its name to Leningrad in honor of Vladimir Lenin.Joseph Stalin replaced him as leader of the USSR.