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Russo-Japanese war begins
Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. -
Bloody Sunaday
A group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre. -
October Manifesto
Tsar promises duma. -
Labor issues and political strife
Issues with the people involving labor problems and political dissent are subdued for the time being by the Czar agreeing to the formation of a representative parliment. -
Stolypin comes to power
Peter Stolypin becomes Prime Minister. -
Rasputin is introduced into the aristrocasy.
Rasputin called himself a holy man and a healer, and he helped heal Czar Nicholas' sick son. -
Pyotr Stolpin was assassinated
Stolypin was in the Operah House when he got assassinated. -
Russia enters WW I
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie set off a rapid chain of events: Austria-Hungary blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Slavic nationalism once and for all. As Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russi -
Rasputin dies
The Russian nobles kill Rasputin. -
Czar abdicates throne to Russia
Czar Nicolas II abdicates the throne, and hands it over to his brother Michael. Michael refuses the crown, and Russia becomes a state of the people. -
Russia's February Revolution begins in St. Petersburg
On March 8, 1917, Russia’s February Revolution (so named because of the Julian calendar that Russians still used at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg (Petrograd). -
Duma gainsa power
he Russian Duma (parliment) becomes the new power in the country after most high ranking Czarist officals go into hiding. -
Lenin returns to Russia
German military leaders shipped Lenin back to Russia -
New government formed
New government formed after collapse of the first provisional government. The First Coalition, as it's named, is formed by all the major parties of Russia except the Bosheviks. -
The Ukrainians independence
The Ukrainians declare their independence from Russia. -
German peace terms unacceptable
Trotsky denounces the German Peace Terms as unacceptable and walks out of the peace negotiations at Brest- Litovsk. -
Lenin signs Brest-Litovsk treaty
Russia signed a treaty with the central powers ending their participation in WW I. -
Communist party is developed
Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party. -
The death of Nicholas II and his family
Members of the land Soviet in Ekaterinbug murdered Nicholas II and his family -
New Economic Policy
Lenin seeing that Russia was falling apart due to western nations not having marxist revolutions, and the economy failing due to in part by his War Communism, implements the "New Economic Policy", known as the NEP. -
The USSR is establised
In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. -
Trotsky loses
After the power struggle Stalin emerged victorious. Trotsky was expelled from the communist party and shipped off into exile in Siberia. -
The Five Year plan
The plan forced heavy industrialization through a command economy headed by the government. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a treaty of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. -
Soviet Invasion of Poland
Promptly after the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1st the Soviet Union invaded poland from the east. This was outlined in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
