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Russo Japanese war
military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.he war began on Feb. 8, 1904, when the main Japanese fleet launched a surprise attack and siege on the Russian naval squadron at Port Arthur. In March the Japanese landed an army in Korea that quickly overran that country. In May another Japanese army landed on the Liaotung Peninsula, and on May 26 it cut off th -
Bloody sunday
The 1905 Russian Revolution was sparked off by a peaceful protest held on January 22nd. This protest may well have been the turning point in the relationship the tsar, Nicholas II, enjoyed with his people. Led by a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Gapon, 150,000 people took to the cold and snow covered streets of St Petersburg to protest about their lifestyle. They were not intent on making any form of political protest in the sense of calling for the overthrow of the government or royal family. -
Revolution 1905
1904–1905: Japan defeats Russia in Russo-Japanese War
First modern victory of Asian country over European power
Major Japanese naval victory at Tsushima Straits
1905 Revolution: Promises to reform absolutist government but makes no lasting changes
Russians upset at loss to Japan
Workers and peasants hungry, paid low wages
Bloody Sunday: Soldiers shoot peaceful demonstrators
Strikes, protests threaten revolution
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Russia Joins WWI
Russia entered the war after Austria declared war against Serbia, because Russia had made itself the guardian of all Slavic and/or Eastern Orthodox peoples, particuraly the South-Slavs in the Balkans who had for centuries been under Muslim-Ottoman domination. -
Grigory Rasputin
Grigory Rasputin (1872-1916) was a Russian mystic and quasi-holy man who rose from peasant farmer to become adviser to Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra . Sometime in 1905 or shortly thereafter, Alexandra had come into contact with Rasputin, and, showing he was able to effectively treat Nicholas's and Alexandra's severely hemophiliac son Alexis , Rasputin quickly gained favor with the Russian rulers. But the prime minister and members of the legis -
Feb Revolution 1917
The February Revolution was a spontaneous uprising of the people. It started after steel workers in Petrograd started to protest in street. Other workers soon joined and went on strike. The situation was made worse after bakeries in the city ran out of bread. Within days, 250 000 workers were on strike. The police shot at the crowd. However, some soldiers refused to shoot at the strikers. Faced with a crisis, Tsar Nicholas II shut down the Duma (parliament). Shortly afterwards, the army went on -
The Abdication of tsar
World War 1 was a key reason why the Tsar was forced to abdicate in 1917, however there were many other factors that contributed some longer term than others. Firstly, World War 1 was a short term cause that gained unpopularity quickly. Longer term causes such as autocracy, size of Russia and opposing groups had a greater impact. Without these factors which reduced the Tsars popularity, World War 1 wouldn't have forced to Tsar to abdicate alone. -
November Revolution
It was the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution of 1917, after the February Revolution of the same year. The October Revolution overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the Soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. It was followed by the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. -
Russia Offically ends its involement in ww1
Russia did not exit the war. They pressed forward in Europe until they had vanquished Germany and all her allies, except for Italy which was conquered by the western allies.
Russian/Soviet units defeated the German, Finnish, Hungarian, and Romanian armies. Once they had defeated the military units of these nations they set up puppet governments and began systematic exploitation of their conquests throughout east Europe. -
The Death of the Romanovs
Romanov family early in the 18th century; all Romanov Tsars from the middle of that century to the revolution of 1917 were descended from that marriage. Though officially known as the House of Romanov, these descendants of the Romanov and Oldenburg Houses are sometimes referred to as Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov. -
Formation of the ussr
The letters USSR stand for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which was the full name of the Soviet Union. It consisted of Russia and fourteen other republics. It disintegrated in the 1990s. -
Lenin's death and the compettion to replace him
In March 1923, Lenin suffered a debilitating stroke. He was politically taken out of the equation and the struggle to replace him began. In January 1924, he died. His body was preserved and is still on public display in Moscow. The great atheist's body is still worshipped to this day. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, his corpse was the closest thing to God the Russians could legally worship. -
Russian Civil War
he origins of the Russian civil war can be found in the discrediting of the tsarist government that took place before World War I; in the social divisions that shaped politics before and during the Revolution of 1917; and in the Bolshevik leadership's belief in the importance of civil war, in the imminence of world revolution, and in the acceptability of applying coercion in setting up a dictatorship of the proletariat. Although historians disagree over when the civil war began, dating the event
