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Czar Alexander's III (1881-1894)
He persecuted Jews during his reign and blamed them for the assassination of his father. He favored the nobility during his reign. He had three principles which were am Autocracy, an Orthodox religion, and national homogeneity. His goals impacted the people by making them believe that there is one main role, one religion, and one race. He set a foundation for the people who did not like him. -
Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917
Nicholas wanted an autocracy making the Russian people to ignore the autocracy and became angry over it. The people in Russia were struggling to industrialize and had bad working conditions but Czar did not do much to help them. He then created a Duma elect a legislature which made the monarch limited. In 1917 he is blamed for the loss of power, Russo-Japanese war, and WWI and steps down from his thrown and a provisional government takes over. -
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
The cause of the war was that Russia and Japan were fighting over land ownership of Northern China. Japan was at an advantage in this war because their country was in a strategically better spot and they had a superior. The Russians lost and was an embarrassing loss for Russia. Russia soon became a Constitutional Monarchy. People then became angry at the Czar. -
Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905)
200,000 workers marched on the Czar's Winter Palace and presented him with a list of grievances and the demand relief from the conditions of their work and their overall lives. The police then open fired on the peasants/workers causing the working class and peasants to dislike the Czar and the government even more. This caused Nicholas to create an elected legislature. -
Death Of Rasputin (1916)
Rasputin was an uneducated peasant who was said to be a exorcist, healer, and a mystic. Russia thought he was a bad influence and a bad person. Therefore Russian's killed him by poisoning him which did not work, then they shot him a few times which did not work, but while Rasputin was weak they threw him in a river where he drowned. Rasputin made an impact on Russia because he was thought to be telling the Czar's wife what to do and causing the people to dislike the Czar even more. -
WWI (1914-1917
Russia joins into WWI to help Serbia. Right when Russia joins Germany joins too. Since Russia was not industrialized they lost to Germany causing Russia to drop out of the war. -
Abdication of Czar Nicholas
Czar Nicholas wanted an autocracy but the people of Russian did not and were angered by that therefore they disliked him. Russia was struggling to industrialize but Czar did not too much to help therefore the people of Russia were given another reason to dislike him. After WWI Nicholas is blamed for the loss of power and street demonstrations broken out causing him to step down from his throne. Czar stepping down from his throne resulted in a provisional government to be put in place. -
Bolshevik Revolution
This was the overthrowing of the provisional government by the Red Guards led by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin started the revolution because the provisional government did not allow Russia to withdraw from the war right away. Lenin then created the Cheka which was a secret police that targeted enemies of the Bolsheviks. The revolution ended in farmland that was took by the provisional government to be given back to peasants and the factories to be controlled by the workers. -
Civil War (1918-1920)
This war was the Red Army against the White Army. The Red Army wanted to bring back imperialism while the White army wanted to have an absolute monarch therefore a war broke out. The White army was at an advantage because they had the Allies on their side. But the Red army was also at an advantage because they controlled industrial areas. The war ends by the Red Army winning and the war brutalizing life in Russia, disease broke out, peasants had to give up their grain, and 5,000,000 people died. -
Establishment of The USSR
This was a union of Soviet socialists and republics. This union discouraged nationalism. This union was soon to be the Soviet union. The USSR helped install many communist governments in Russia. -
Stalin's Rise to Power (1922-1927)
Stalin manipulated his way into power despite Lenin's concerns. In 1928 he became in full command of the Communist party. He then had Trotsky exiled and then later was killed. Soon later he became dictator of The Soviet Union. -
Lenin's Death (1924)
He served as a head of the government in the Soviet Union and passed away in 1924 which created competition over his role. -
Leon Trotsky's Exile (1929)
Trotsky was exiled to Mexico by Stalin for believing in a certain kind of Marxism called Trotskyism which Stalin did not like therefore he had Trotsky exiled to Mexico and then assassinated by a man with an ice-axe.
