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The February Revolution
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd (also called the March Revolution if following the Gregorian calendar). -
Lenin
Was the founder of the Russian Revolution and the architect, builder and first head of the soviet union. -
The February Revolution began
The troops of the Petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the uprising. In some encounters, regiments opened fire, killing demonstrators, but the protesters kept to the streets and the troops began to waver. -
Initial anti-Bolshevik uprisings
The first attempt to regain power from the Bolsheviks was made by the Kerensky-Krasnov uprising in October 1917. It was supported by the Junker Mutiny in Petrograd but was quickly put down by the Red Guard, notably the Latvian rifle division. -
Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head.Lenin became the virtual dictator of the first Marxist state in the world. -
Peace with the Central Powers
an armistice was signed between Russia and the Central Powers in Brest-Litovsk and peace talks began.[30] As a condition for peace, the proposed treaty by the Central Powers conceded huge portions of the former Russian Empire to the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire, greatly upsetting nationalists and conservatives. -
October Revolution
In the October Revolution the Bolshevik Party directed the Red Guard to seize control of Petrograd and immediately began the armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire. In January 1918 the Bolsheviks dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly and proclaimed the Soviets as the new government of Russia. -
Ukraine, South Russia, and Caucasus 1918
Under Soviet pressure, the Volunteer Army embarked on the epic Ice March from Yekaterinodar to Kuban on 22 February 1918, where they joined with the Kuban Cossacks to mount an abortive assault on Yekaterinodar.The Soviets recaptured Rostov on the next day. -
Eastern Russia, Siberia and Far East of Russia, 1918
By the end of July the Whites had extended their gains westwards, capturing Ekaterinburg on 26 July 1918. Shortly before the fall of Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918, the former Tsar and his family were executed by the Ural Soviet to prevent them falling into the hands of the Whites. -
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established
Five years after the Russian revolution overthrew the monarchy of the czar, they formed the union of soviet socialist republics. Was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991.
