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Communist Manifesto published
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Emancipation of the serfs
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Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia
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Lenin arrested and exiled
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Period: to
Russo-Japanese War
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Bloody Sunday - The First Russian Revolution
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Creation of Duma - October Manifesto
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Lenin exiled again
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Period: to
World War I
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Rasputin assasinated
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February Revolution takes over Russia
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Formation of the Petrograd Soviet
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Lenin sent back to Russia
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Alexander Kerensky's Mensheviks take power
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General Kornilov fails to coup d'etat the provisional government
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Period: to
Russian Civil War
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October Revolution succeeds
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
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Death of Lenin
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Stalin exiles Trotsky