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Decembrist Revolt
In Imperial Russia on December 26, 1825 Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nickolas the First. -
Czar Alexander ll Emancipates the Serfs
The serfs were set free and no longer had to live like slaves. -
Nicholas ll becomes czar of Russia
The last Tzar or emporer of Russia. -
Alexander Kerensky becomes leader of the provisional government
He became the second Prime Minister until it was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. -
The Social-Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
Splits into the two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks becuase of thier diffent politicail beliefs. -
The Russo-Japenese War
Both countries wanted more power and so they looked for Manchuria and North Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
Father Georgy Gapon lead unarmed demostrators, as the marched to the Winter Palace. They were fired upon by soldiers of the imperial guards. -
Revolution of 1905
A wave of mass polititial and social unrest -
World War l (Russian involvment)
Russia expanded very fast across Europe. They fought hard even wtih the harsh conditions of the war. Russia also became a Communst country in only four years. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. -
The March Revolution
Many stikes and dempnstrations to show what the Bolsheviks and Moshiviks wanted. This also led to the USSR -
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
On the evening of April 3,1917 a train from Finnland arrived in Saint Petersburg, Russia with -
Russian Civil War begins
was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army. -
Nicholas ll and his family were ececuted
They were killed by the Ural Soviet. The family thought they were going to take a family photo but instead the were shot and killed. -
Vladimer Lenin dies and Josef Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1957
