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Bloody Sunday sparks Russian Revolution
In 1905 a nonviolent protest in Petrograd by the factory workers led by Father Gapon went horribly awry, the Czar ordered that the protesters be broken up, the army was sent into the streets. The death count is undetermined, as some say only a few hundred died others who were anti-government had said that it was 4,000 -
World war I begins
Schlieffen planned that Germany would defeat france knocking it out of war before russia could mobilize a huge army. Millions of people are called up to join the army which were the peasants and the farmers and not the wealthy or the rich. World war I caused a big failure to russia because all the non wealthy people were called up which caused a lot of stress to Russia. -
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The february revolution starts with strikes and demonstrations
Factory workers in Petrograd were angered about the war and the toll it had taken on the country and the city, the prices of food had risen but because of weapon buying and the effect it had on the economy there was little money to buy food with. So they started striking, and holding demonstrations, this is when the bolsheviks began to get many followers and the people rallied behind lenin -
Russia withdraws from World War I
Lenin and russia signed a treaty that gave germany valuable land in exchange for peace. Russia experienced many negative outcomes from the beginning of the war. Russia was very unprepared which brought them to be outgunned and outclassed by the Germans. Although the russians did have a rebound, it only got worse for them from there. -
The October Revolution
The Bolsheviks leader lenin called for the soviets to overthrow the Provisional Government. Shortages of food and other goods were severe many russians supported transfering all government to the soviets which made russia call for extreme measures. The government sent troops to seize the soviets. This gave the Bolsheviks control over the Mensheviks. So they were able to overthrow the government and take control of a lot of things and this ended russia participation in the Great War. -
Czar nicholas and his family are executed.
In the early hours of July 17th the Czar and his family were awakened and led to a basement in the ipatiev house the pretext being that it was to hide from the bolshevik forces which would soon be upon them. Executioner Yakov Yurovsky told them that they were to be executed they were all shot and killed and some killed with bayonets. -
Russian Civil war ends
The civil war ended because Lenin replaced war communism with the new economic policy. The Civil war ended with Victory for the reds but the Peasant revolts still continued. Lenin saw that the Bolshevik Revolution could not survive if the countryside didn't oppose it. The New economic policy relaxed the extreme policies of war communism. -
Lenin suffers second stroke
By march 1923 Lenin was paralyzed and suffered from yet another stroke. He was unable to speak or move. Just before Lenin died he wanted to get rid of Stalin because he thought he was dangerous to the country and the government. Lenin had his fourth stroke and passed away. In memory of Lenin, The town renamed its name to Leningrad in memory from Lenin -
Lenin Dies
Lenin had very poor health growing up which caused many severe strokes which left him paralyzed and unable to move or speak. This forced him to look back on his involvement in politics. Before he died he would stay at home where he was cared for by his wife and staff. In 1922 aware that the end of his life was soon to come Lenin dedicated a series of documents to his wife. In 1924 he suffered from yet another server stroke which caused him to pass away.
