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All hail the Czar!!
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia and also the last -
The Parties
The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) meeting in which the Party splits into two factions: Mensheviks ("minority") and Bolsheviks ("majority") -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution which lives up to its name -
The October Manifesto
The signing of the October Manifesto, issued by Czar Nicholas II, brings an end to the 1905 Russian Revolution by promising civil liberties and an elected parliament (Duma) Which unfortubately is never fulfilled :// -
The Duma's Downfall
The promised parliament, the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise. -
Rioting
Riots over the scarcity of food broke out in the capital, Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) -
Order #1
The Soviet issued its famous Order No. 1, which directed the military to obey only the orders of the Soviet and not those of the Provisional Government. The Provisional Government was unable to countermand the order. -
Revolt
Most of the Petrograd garrison joined the revolt, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. -
Provisional Government
Czar Nicholas II abdicates and includes his son. The following day, Nicholas' brother, Mikhail announced his refusal to accept the throne. Provisional Government formed -
The February Revolutuion
People protesting for bread in the streets of the Russian capitol, Petrograd. 90,000 men and women were on strike and refused to leave the streets. -
Kerensky
Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government -
Revolution
The Bolsheviks and Left Socialist Revolutionaries staged a nearly bloodless coup, occupying government buildings, telegraph stations, and other strategic points -
All Hail The Boshleviks
The Winter Palace, the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars (abbreviated as Sovnarkom), led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia -
Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I -
Russian civil war
Russian civil war begins and on July 17 Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed -
The Whites
The counter revolutionaries began to organize their own group called The Whites. -
The Reds
Trotsky set up the Red Army and began preparing to fight the Whites. -
The War
The Reds and The Whites fought a bloody and violent civil war for the next three years. -
Call it quits
The russian civil war ends -
...And the Grammy goes to
The Communists win the civil war fought against the whites. -
A new beginning
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established -
The beggining of Stalin
Lenin dies and soon after Stalin will become the new successor -
The Big Five Years
In a brutal and ill-fated attempt to bring the Soviet economy in to the industrial age, Stalin seizes farms and factories that were crucial to the nation's agriculture. Hundreds of thousands of people die for protesting or simply due to starvation as Stalin continues to ship food out of the country to try and cover up the failure of his plan. -
The Marshall plan
When the Marshall Plan is enacted to provide aid to Europe after being devastated in World War II, Stalin rejects it. He does not like the plan because it will also help Germany and he thinks the U.S. is becoming too dominant. His attempts to block food from arriving in West Berlin fail when the U.S. airlifts supplies into the city. -
Stalin dies
Already in poor health, Stalin dies four days after suffering a stroke at his home and there are rumors that long after his death they say he was poisoned.
