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The Russian Revolution

By pao107

  • Alexander Ulyanov

    Alexander Ulyanov
    Lenin's brother, Alexander Ulyanov, is hanged for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III

  • Czar Alexander III dies

    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
    Lenin is arrested, kept in solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia for three years

  • Nicholas II

    Nicholas II
    Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia

  • The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP)

    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
    Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution

  • the Tsar

    the Tsar
    October General Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution.

  • The promised parliament

    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
    First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens

  • Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.

    Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.
    Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.

  • Alexander Kerensky

    Alexander Kerensky
    • Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister of the Provisional Government

  • The Duma declares Russia a republic

    The Duma declares Russia a republic
    The Duma declares Russia a republic

  • The new Bolshevik government

    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 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

  • - Russian civil war ends

    - Russian civil war ends
    • Russian civil war ends

  • -Stalin is appointed General Secretary

    -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
    • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established

  • Lenin dies

    Lenin dies
    Lenin dies and is succeeded by the triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev