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Decembrist Revolt
The Decembrist Revolt was an uprising against the Russian czars. However, it was crushed by the leader at the time, Nicholas I, and resulted in a repression. -
Nicholas II becomes czar of Russia
Nicholas II succeeded to the Russian throne upon the death of his father, Alexander III. He was not trained or inclined to rule, but he had to step up to the position anyways and become czar of Russia. -
The Russo-Japanese War
This war continued on until 1905. It was a war caused by the conflicted ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over the land of Manchuria and Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was a massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was a catalyst for the Russian Revolution of 1905. In this, over 100 marchers peacefully protesting were killed, and several hundred wounded. The massacre was followed by many other strikes, but a bloody ending to what was just one big strike at the beginning. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
World War I had a devastating impact on Russia. What seemed to be such a small conflict, increased rapidly into what is now known as World War I. Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France were all drawn into the war, all mainly because they were involved in treaties that obligated them to defend certain other nations. This war ended on November 11, 1918. -
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World War I (Russian Involvement)
World War I had a devastating impact on Russia. What seemed to be such a small conflict, increased rapidly into what is now known as World War I. Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France were all drawn into the war, all mainly because they were involved in treaties that obligated them to defend certain other nations. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
During the February revolution, czar Nicholas II was forced abdicate his throne because strikes and revolts broke out in St. Petersburg against him. -
The March Revolution
The March Revolution was a revolution focused around what is now St. Petersburg. It was quite chaos in which members of the Imperial parliament (Duma,) took control of the country. This then formed the Russian Provisional Government. -
The Russian Civil War begins
The Russian Civil War tore apart the country of Russia for about three or so years. The war took place from 1917 to 1921. It occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed LEnin’s Bolsheviks. These groups were things like monarchists, militarists, and even foreign nations. All together, they were known as the whites and the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. This was a war between those two groups. -
The creation of the U.S.S.R.
During the Russian Revolution of 1917 and three-year Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated the soviet forces. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled by the Communist Party, (the commissar leaders.) The chief commissar leader was Lenin. The Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state-run collective farms. The commissar of War becomes Leon Trotsky. -
Vladimir Lenin’s Death
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist, politician, and an architect of the Bolshevik Revolution. The people of Russia came to have mixed feelings about him at different points in time as we look back on it today. However, he died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. Upon Lenin’s death. his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin, and Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor.
