Russian Revolution Timeline

  • Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia

    Nicholas ll was crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow.
  • Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution

    is the name given to the events of Sunday, 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
  • World War I begins

    The thing that started World War 1 was Austro-Hungarian Empire was shot along with his wife Sophie by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
  • Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train

  • Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd

    They did not have a good enough defense.
  • Czar Nicholas II gives up power

    NIcholas was forced to abdicate the advance of counterrevolutionary forces caused the Yekaterinburg Soviet forces to fear that Nicholas might be rescued. After a secret meeting, a death sentence was passed on the imperial family, and Nicholas, his wife, his children, and several of their servants were gunned down on the night of July 16.
  • Russian civil war begins

    The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks.
  • Russia withdraws from World War I

    the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard.
  • The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd

    He wanted to take control of the Provisional Government and destroy the Petrograd Soviet.
  • The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party

    They changed there name to Russian Communist Party.
  • The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow

    Lenin won an argument about changing the name.
  • Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed

    he was replaced by a Provisional Government committed to continuing the war.
  • Russian civil war ends

    Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia's role in World War I ended.
  • Lenin suffers second stroke

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established

  • Lenin dies

    He suffered three severe strokes at the age of 53.