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Order No.1 of the Petrograd Soviet.
Basically where something like rules implied or made for poeple to me more ordered, or organized, where people could elect representatives that would represent them in important positions in the governemnt such as military, navy ships, etc. Also made rules for military in the order of how they could be addressed according to ranks, and about their discipline. -
The February Revolution
Riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). This began due to Russias involment in World War I, bringing the people to protest against the economic difficulties that Russia was ecnountering after loosing to Germany, which reduced the food supplies that poeple were receiving. This lead to people destroying police station, other important governemnt buildings, and many more riots as well as protests throughout the streets of the Russian capital of Petrogra -
International Women's Day
A day remebered in the February Revolution for militancy and action, where it was intended as a day to mobilize working class women against capitalism.A mass demonstration of Petrograd women, led by a group of striking women textile workers, marched on the municipal Duma demanding bread. They called on their husbands and brothers to join them, where 90,000 workers went on strike, demanding bread, an end to war, and down with the tsar police. -
Capital Punishment
The Russians decided to abolish the death penalty immediately after assuming power, but restored it for some crimes very soon -
February Revolution Riot
Known as February 27 on the old Russian Calender, Troops refuse to fire on demonstrators or deserters. Prisons, courts, and police bumbs were attacked and looted by angry crowds, where building were burnt, or torn down by these poeple. -
Provisional Government established
Was a provisional government of the Russian Republic established immediately following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. -
Milyukov Note
Foreign Minister Pavel Miliukov wrote a note to the Allied Powers that directly contradicted the Soviet's "defensist" position. Miliukov's declaration that Russia could "carry the world war to a decisive victory," after gaining control over Constantinople and the Dardanelles, which provoked a crisis and reorganization of the Provisional Government. -
First Coalition Government
Formed when socialists, representatives of the Soviet leadership, agreed to enter the cabinet of the Provisional Government. Alexander Kerensky, the only socialist already in the government, made minister of war and navy. -
Russia Vs. Austria-Hungary
This was Russia's greatest feat of arms during World War I, where offensive sent involved a major Russian attack against the armies of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front, launched on June 4, 1916, and lasting until late September -
July Days
Mass armed demonstrations in Petrograd, encouraged by the Bolsheviks, demanding "All Power to the Soviets". -
Bolsheviks gain Moscow
With many advantages over their opponents, the Bolshviks soilders seize Moscow after a victorious fight agains its opponents in Moscow -
The October Revolution
The after the February Revolution, power was shared between the weak provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. Later on, on November 6, leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head. He then started a peace treaty with Germany, nati -
Ukraine proclaimed independent by the Central Rada
At the height of the Ukrainian-Soviet War and in the midst of the peace negotiations, the Central Rada proclaimed the Fourth Universa, which declared the Ukrainian National Republic an independent and sovereign state -
Constituent Assembly
An assembly in which the Bolsheviks attended a minority meet for one day before being put to an end. Earlier that day a demonstration was fired on by Bolshevik units and several demonstartors were killed. -
The German Peace Terms
Trotsky denounces the German Peace Terms as unacceptable and walks out of the peace negotiations wit Germany at Brest- Litovsk -
Germans Invade Russia
The Germans invade Russia after Trotsky denounces the German Peace Terms as unacceptable and walks out of the peace negotiationS, which is all but defenceless as virtually the entire army has deserted. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Russian governemnt signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk to prevent any Geram invasion, but unfortunately had to sacrify a quarter of land due to this treaty so that an agreement could be reached between the Russian and German governemnt. -
Bolsheviks accept dictated Peace od Brest-Litovsk
The Bolsheviks accept the dictated peace of Brest-Litovsk. The Left SRs denounce the peace and leave the government. -
Moscow Headquarters
On April 12th, 1918, Moscow headquarters of the anarchists were surrounded and attacked by Bolshevik troops. -
Troops vs Protestors
Bolshevi troops open fire on workers protesting food shortages in what was the town of Kolpino -
Gorky's Novaia Zhizn banned
This was a daily newspaper published by a group of Mensheviks associated with the literary magazine Letopis, including Maxim Gorky, Nikolai Sukhanov, Stroev Denitskyand Tikhonov.Its run was interrupted when publication was suspended on the orders of the Russian Provisional Government. -
3 Ministers Arrested
3 ministers of the Siberian government were arrested by a supporter of Mikhailov -
Kolchak Vs. the Directory
Kolchak stages a coup against the directory and estbaishes a counter revolutionary despotism. -
Russian Civil War
The "Reds" or the Bolsheviks, was an army formed and trained by Trotsky to fight against "The Whites" or the anti-Bolsheviks, fought a war of three years against "The Whites" -
Poland invades Russia.
On 17 September 1939, early in the morning, the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Poland was already in the state of war with Nazi Germany that had started on 1 September 1939. The Soviet invasion of Poland was a direct result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on 23 August. A secret protocol that cut the continent into two spheres of influence, split between two totalitarian systems – that of Nazi Germany and that of Soviet Union
