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Czar Alexander II is assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will’
Czar Alexander ll did much to liberalize and to modernize Russia, such as a abolishing the serfdom, however his rein came to an end on March 13, 1881 when the assassin group called ¨ People’s Will¨ through a bomb on St. Petersburg. People’s Will employed terrorism and assionassion in attempt to overthrow Russian Czarist autocracy. -
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia
The czar personally took over command of the army in 1915. He left Czarina Alexandra in control at home. The Russian mystic Rasputin replaced czar’s competent ministers and officials with questionable nominees. Nicholas II was later called on to abdicate, in March 1917. However on March 15, he renounced the throne in favor of his brother Michael, however he refused the crown which brought an end to the czarist autocracy in Russia. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
.Moderate reforms called for a national legislature to be elected by the people. A long list of demands was brought to the Czar through a peaceful march lead by a huge throng of St. Petersburg workers. Later the march was met by troops who opened fire. With 130 protesters dead, came what is known as Bloody Sunday. With news of Bloody Sunday followed news of Japan’s crushing defeat of Russia. Workers in Russia created a council called the soviets. -
World War I begins
On the Eastern Front of World War I, Russian forces invaded the German-held regions of East Prussia and Poland, but were stopped short by German and Austrian forces at the Battle of Tannenberg in late August 1914. Despite that victory, Russia’s assault had forced Germany to move two corps from the Western Front to the Eastern, contributing to the German loss in the Battle of the Marne. -
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
The February Revolution brought great change to Russia’s Government.The February Revolution started on February 23, 1917. With in days nearly all workers that worked in the Petrograd were on strike. They were soon joined by Students and the city’s middle class. The soldiers that were called on to end all the striking refused to do so and soon joined in with the protests. Finally with losing his army, government, and his people he gave up throne. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates (gives up power)
In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoe Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk. In July 1918. 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. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
In December 1895, Lenin and the other leaders of the Union were arrested. Lenin was jailed for a year and then exiled to Siberia for a term of three years. After he returned from exile he returned to his revolutionary activity. He had a newspaper published to the people that entitled What Is to Be Done? which argued that only a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries could bring socialism to Russia. -
Bolshevik uprising fails in Petrograd
Leon Trotsky was the person who encouraged people to revolt against their government. This was led by Vladimir Lenin, he had just got back from exile and they saw their chance to seize the streets of Petrograd. The the provisional government started to destroy the Bolshevik’s newspaper industry offices and Lenin didn’t think it was safe and stop revolting and went into hiding. -
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The October Revolution - the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd
On October 24, 1917 the Bolshevik soldiers took control of bridges, telegraph offices, railroad stations, and other major key points in the city. With in the next morning October 25, 1917 Lenin announced that the government had been overthrown. The Congress of Soviets had taken power and by the end of the day, the Provisional Government had surrendered. By October 26, 2017 the Congress of Soviets voted to create a leadership council to head the new government.They gave all land to the peasants. -
Russia withdraws from World War l
Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I was a primary factor that led to Vladimir Lenin’s successful Marxist revolution in November 1917. Lenin sent Leon Trotsky to Brest Litovsk in Belarus to negotiate a treaty. The talks broke off after Germany demanded independence for Russian holdings in Eastern Europe, and in February 1918 fighting resumed on the eastern front. With German troops advancing on St. Petersburg, Lenin authorized the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918 -
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Russian civil war begins
Many people disagreed with the way that Lenin ruled, and later on tried to overthrow him, which then later resulted in a three year war. The Red Army successfully defended Bolshevik’s newly formed government which was lead by Lenin, against Russian revolutionary groups. This however came to the Russian civil war. -
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The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
Soon after the Bolsheviks came into power they held a democratic party for the people of Russia. However when only 25% of National Assembly actually showed up they discarded the idea of working together and to share no power. Which resulted in the three year war, the Bolsheviks then assembled the Red Army, but with in a month changed the name to Communist Party. -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow for some good reasons. Moscow was in the center of russia which made its location better than St. Petersburg. Also the population in Moscow was larger, so they decided that it was better to have the capital of Russia to have a large population. Last Moscow was very far from the front lines -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
Czar Nicholas was crowned in 1896. This ruler did not train for ruling, but instead was sought to preserve among people who were desperate for change. Once Nicholas approved a representative assembly the Duma and promised constitutional reforms did Russian Revolution of 1905. However the Czar soon reacted to these concessions by repeatedly dissolving the Duma. Nicholas led his country into another war which would cost them greatly. World war I which Russia was ill prepared for. -
Russian civil war ends
The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the start of 1921. During this time, the Bolsheviks faced massive opposition to their rule in the form of the White Armies, led by former officers of the Tsarist state, and also from intervention by the forces of foreign countries. The Bolsheviks were surrounded, often outnumbered by their opponents, and had no experienced military commanders. At times, their situation seemed hopeless. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
During the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent three-year Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated the soviet forces, a coalition of workers’ and soldiers’ committees that called for the establishment of a socialist state in the former Russian Empire. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled by the Communist Party, and the party’s politburo, with its increasingly powerful general secretary, effectively ruled the country. -
Lenin dies
In 1905 workers constantly rebelled across Russia, but in 1917 along with Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I, did Lenin realize that opportunity for Communist revolution had arrived. In March 1917. Lenin immediately left Switzerland and crossed German enemy lines to arrive at Petrograd on April 16, 1917. With in six months his leadership, Lenin had become virtual dictator of the country, But it wasn’t until 1920 that Bolshevik had complete control of Russia,
