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FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd -
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I -
assassination attempt
An assassination attempt leaves Lenin seriously wounded -
lenin retiring
Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation -
Lenin dies
lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik move and head of the first government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
