Russian Revolution PD5

serfs were freed

Jan 1, 1861

serfs the serfs were freed.

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

Jan 1, 1898

russian social The Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

It Split

Jan 1, 1903

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into two groups.

The March

Jan 22, 1905

Thousands of people peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

The Arrest

Dec 1, 1905

The army crushed an uprising in Moscow and police arrested the member of the St. Petersburg Soviet, including revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky

Escape

Jan 1, 1907

leon Trotsky escaped and gone into exile.

War

Aug 1, 1914

Germany declared war on Russia.

Murder of Rasputin

Dec 1, 1916

rasputin A group of Russian nobles, loyal to the Czar, murdered Rasputin

Returned

Jan 1, 1917

Lenin returned to Petrograd.

Revived the Petrograd Soviet

Mar 1, 1917

petrograd soviet Leaders, Left-Leaning members of the Duma, and soldiers revived the Petrograd Soviet that was first set up in 1905.

Strikes

Mar 8, 1917

Strikes and riots broke out over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd.

Abdicate

Mar 15, 1917

czar The government forced Czar Nicholas to abdicate.

Uprising

Jul 1, 1917

Soldiers began another uprising in Petrograd.

Made a bid

Sep 1, 1917

General Lavr Kornilov made a bid to seize power.

Killed

Jan 1, 1918

bolsheviks Bolsheviks killed them at Yekaterinburg.