Russian RevolutionPD3

By AmayaK

  • later 1800's and early 1900's

    later 1800's and early 1900's
    ImageRussia experienced great changes in the latter half of the 1800's and in the early 1900's. The serfs (rural slaves) were freed in 1861.

  • Serf Life after being freed

    Serf Life after being freed
    Image However, they received little land and were heavily in debt. In the towns and cities, industrialization altered the face of Russian society.

  • RSD

    RSD
    ImageIn 1898, the Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

  • Peaceful March to czar Nicholas

    Peaceful March to czar Nicholas
    ImageOn Jan. 22, 1905, thousands of men, women, and children peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital. Their intention was to deliver a petition asking for better working conditions and a democratically elected assembly. The czar's soldiers fired on the demonstrators, killing or wounding hundreds of them.

  • World War 1

    World War 1
    ImageLasted from 1914 to 1918 (Four years Of war)

  • Germany

    Germany
    ImageGermany Declared War In August Of 1914.The Germans easily overwhelmed a Russian army that was poorly trained and badly led.

  • The Death of Rasputin

    The Death of Rasputin
    ImageMeanwhile, Czar Nicholas and his wife were deeply influenced by the monk Grigori Rasputin. Under Rasputin's influence, Nicholas filled key posts with officials who were incompetent and unpopular. In December 1916, a group of Russian nobles loyal to the czar murdered Rasputin.

  • the Febuary Revolution

    On March 8, 1917 (February 25, on the old Russian calendar), strikes and riots over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd. This uprising became known as the February Revolution. Troops sent to stop the uprising joined the demonstrators instead.

  • Czar Nicholas

    Czar Nicholas
    ImageOn March 15, 1917, the government forced Czar Nicholas to abdicate (resign his throne). Nicholas and his family were later taken into custody. The Bolsheviks killed them at Yekaterinburg in 1918.

  • Trotsky

    Trotsky, who had escaped in 1907 and gone into exile, had returned to Petrograd in May 1917 and was chosen to head the soviet there in September.

  • reconquering

    . Communist Russia gradually transformed itself into the Soviet Union. It reconquered Ukraine, which it had lost in 1918, and Georgia and eastern Armenia, which it had lost during the period of civil war.

  • Soviet of Socialist Republics

    The RCG (Russian Communist Government) formed the union of soviet socialist republics.