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Alexander Ulyanov
Lenin's brother, Alexander Ulyanov, is hanged for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III -
Czar Alexander III dies
Czar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness and his son, Nicholas II, becomes the ruler of Russia -
Lenin is arrested
Lenin is arrested, kept in solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia for three years -
Nicholas II
Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia -
The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP)
The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) meeting in which the Party splits into two factions: Mensheviks ("minority") and Bolsheviks ("majority") -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution -
the Tsar
October General Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution. -
The promised parliament
The promised parliament, the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise. -
Czar Nicholas II
Czar Nicholas II assumes supreme command of the Russian Army -
The February Revolution
The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd -
First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens
First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens -
Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.
Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary. -
Alexander Kerensky
- Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government
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The Duma declares Russia a republic
The Duma declares Russia a republic -
The new Bolshevik government
-The new Bolshevik government converts Russia from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar turning February 1 into February 14 -
The Winter Palace
- The Winter Palace, the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars (abbreviated as Sovnarkom), led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia
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- Russian civil war ends
- Russian civil war ends
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-Stalin is appointed General Secretary
-Stalin is appointed General Secretary -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established
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Lenin dies
Lenin dies and is succeeded by the triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev
