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Progressive Bloc forms
Progressive Bloc was an alliance of political forces in the Russian Empire and occupied 236 of the 442 seats in the Imperial Duma. -
3rd coalition government with bolsheviks as the majority
The provisional government lasted approximately eight months, and ceased to exist when the Bolsheviks gained power after the October Revolution. -
Duma dissolved by Czar Nicholas
The State Duma introduced into the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II in 1906. It was dissolved in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. -
February revolution
The February Revolution was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. -
Order No.1 issued
Soviet Order Number 1 was the first official order of The Petrograd (st. Petersburg) Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. The order was issued following the February Revolution. -
tzar nicholas 2 abdicates
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne. A provincial government is installed in his place. -
Lenin returns to Russia
It was safer for Lenin to return to Petrograd. -
Lenin issues his April Theses
April Theses were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland. -
Kerensky becomes Prime Minister
When the tsar's government collapsed, the members of the Duma set up the Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky. The Provisional Government never really ruled Russia. -
bolsheviks revolution
joined the Bolshevik Party in Russia whose goal was to overthrow the Provisional Government and set up a government for the proletariat. -
Lenin instated as chairman of the council of Peoples commissars
This was a government formed shortly after the October Revolution in 1917. Created in the Russian Republic, the council laid foundations in restructuring the country to form the Soviet Union. -
White Army Forms in opposition to bolsheviks
Political opinions in Russia formed their opposition to the Bolsheviks -
Allied forces arrive and fight alongside whites
After the Bolshevik government withdrew from World War I, the Allied Powers militarily backed the anti-communist White forces in Russia -
Russia declared a republic
declaring Russia to be a democratic federal republic. -
Treaty of Brest-litovsk
This was a peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers -
Russia falls results in counter attack
During the June 18 offensive, the Russian Army was defeated by the German and Austro-Hungarian forces as a result of a counter-attack. -
czar nicholas and family executed
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty. -
Lenin's attempted assassination
After speaking at a factory in Moscow, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot twice by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the Social Revolutionary party. Lenin was seriously wounded but survived the attack. -
New economic plan announced
This was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR. -
Lenin's Death
Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, died aged only 53, having suffered three severe strokes.
