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Russian Revolution
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The Russian Revolution Starts
Women textile workers go on strike and gather in the streets to protest against food shortages. The strike then spreads to other factories and more protests start -
Provisional Government
Duma declared itself a Provisional Government. -
Czar Quits
The Provisional Government was established and Russia left in their powers after Czar quit. -
First Coalition Government
The Second Provisional Government, also called the First Coalition Government, is formed. -
First All Russian Congress
The First All-Russian Congress of Soviets begins in Petrograd. The Congress almost unanimously agrees to end World War I, though only through tremendous consternation agrees to support the Provisional Government, despite Bolshevik protests -
Finland declared a state
The Parliament in Finland (a territory of Russia) declare Finland a sovereign state, except on questions of foreign policy and war. -
State conference
The Provisional Government holds a State Conference in Moscow. Workers Soviets overwhelming vote for a general strike in opposition to the Conference, but the Petrograd Soviet votes 364 to 304 to not strike. -
Lenin illegally publishes Lessons of Revolution
Lenin illegally publishes Lessons of Revolution, recounting events since the February Revolution. Lenin also finishes his most important theoretical work: The State and Revolution. -
Lenin succeeds in taking over
Lenin still leads the split political party of the Russian Social-Democrat Labor Party, and his party soon moved in and took control of Russia. -
Winter Palace
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko leads the storming of the Winter Palace, signaling the start of the October Revolution -
The Soviet revolution gains control in Tashkent
The Soviet revolution gains control in Tashkent. In the North, General Krasnov is taken prisoner, but Kerensky again escapes. -
Lenin's Proclamation
Lenin announces the end of the Provisional Government and the victory of the revolution. -
Ukrainian National Republic
The Ukrainians form the Ukrainian People’s Republic, also called the Ukrainian National Republic. -
The Soviet Government presently controls 28 provincial capitals,
The Soviet Government presently controls 28 provincial capitals, in addition to every major industrial center of the country. The Government orders the arrest of the leadership of the Cadet party. -
New Government
The new government, Council of People’s Commissars, withdrew Russia from the war with Germany. -
Finland declares independence
Finland declares its independence from Russia. -
Moldavians declare independence
The Moldavians declare independence from Russia -
Ukrainian National Republic
The Ukrainian National Republic declares their independence from Russia. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I and prevented German invasion. Russia sacrificed a quarter of land under this treaty. -
Soviet Russia becomes a one-party state
The Left Socialist Revolutionaries walk out of government in protest at the Treaty which leads to Soviet Russia becoming a one-party state. -
Bolsheviks kill Czar
The Bolsheviks took Czar and his family into custody and later killed them at Yekaterinberg. -
The Whites
A group of people against the revolution called the counterrevolutionaries began to organize their own group called The Whites. -
Trotsky prepares the Red Army
Trotsky set up the Red Army and began preparing to fight the Whites. -
Reds vs. Whites
The Reds and The Whites fought a bloody and violent civil war for three years. -
Reds win
The Reds win the civil war that they were fighting against The Whites.
