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Czar Assassination
Assassinated by the terrorist group ‘People’s Will’ group in the streets of Saint Petersburg by the Winter Palace, by a bomb that was thrown into his carriage, from a member of this revolutionary group.This group had made several earlier attempts on the czar before the 8th and final attempt on May 13th. His son Alexander III then became the next czar. -
Nicholas II crowned Czar
Nicholas II was crowned, later to become the last czar, of Russia. Nicholas lacked qualities of a strong ruler he was also not trained before becoming czar. Nicholas when ruler in the beginning refused calls “for reform and sought to maintain czarist absolutism” even though he lacked the strength for that kind of task, The outcome of the Russian and Japanese tok care of that in leading to the Russian Revolution -
Bloody Sunday
A group of workers who were led by a priest, Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marching to the Czar’s palace, for a peacefully spoken outing about their demands. Imperial forces of the Czar then opened fire killing and wounding hundreds of people. Strikes and riots then took place throughout the country in an outrage towards the Czar’s massacre. Nicholas responding with the promise of formation of regional assemblies, dumas. -
WWI begins
WWI begins after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand setting off a chain reaction after war was declared on Serbia. This war included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman empire fought the Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and The United States. Because of the industrialization the war saw the horrors of inventions and weapons and trench warfare. -
Russian civil war
The Bolsheviks moving quick to gain power, reaffirming censorship of the press, they create a secret police that was forced to deal with those who opposed them. Russia was sent into a three year civil war after Lenin forced the assembly to disband, after less than 25% of the elected were Bolsheviks. They then created Segregation of armies, The communists, The “Reds”. The anti communists, “The Whites”. And the peasant forces “The Greens”. -
The February Revolution
begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd, 90,000 men and women on strike,clashing with police,refusing to leave.Later the strike had spread among Petrograd’s workers,and mobs destroyed police stations.troops were called to stop this,some opening fire killing,but they stayed.That day Nicholas thought to dissolve the Dumas,the army frustrated over this switched sides,government was forced to resign a provisional government was established.Three days the Czar abdicated. -
Czar abdicates
Nicholas the II was away at WWI’s Eastern Front, after dissolving the Duma, However it refused to disband and created a temporary government, The Provisional Government, hoping that it would end the unrest that was hurting Russia’s war effort. He had lost his government, his people and his army. Nicholas gave up his throne. -
Lenin returned from exile
Arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train after ten years in exile. He was met with a large crowd waiting to greet him and cheer, he met them with hostility however. He then spoke out against the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet as they were to blame for helping bring the change of power. -
Petrograd, Bolshevik uprising
These demonstrations in Petrograd began the February Revolution. The “July days” were when soldiers, sailors, and industrial workers that engaged in random armed demonstrations against the Russian Provisional Government. After these violent outbreaks came to an end the Bolsheviks were put to blame, the party dispersed and many of the members were arrested, This is when Lenin fled from Russia. -
The October Revolution
Lenin returned to Russia calling for the overthrow of the Provisional Government.Bolsheviks were in the minority so when taken to the streets the petrograd soviet refused support.By August government offensive was bad, this led to the increasing numbers of Russians to support the transfer of power to the soviets.The government sent troops they failed as the soviets explained they were being used.The Bolsheviks gained the majority and overthrew the government taking key points of the city over. -
Russia leaves WWI
Russia leaves the war as they were dealing with riots of their people not liking how their government was handling the scarcity of food and fuel do to the high costs of war. The government supported Russian to participate in the war, but they didn’t know how to solve the food shortages that were affecting the country. -
Russian capital change
From the 14th century until 1712 Moscow was the capital of the Russian Empire, It was then changed to St. Petersburg in order to be closer to Europe. It was then moved back to Moscow in 1918, the capital being relocated from the overcrowded ‘Rio de Janerio’ to the planned to be built city Brasillia that was to be created in 1961 -
Bolshevik party name change
The Bolsheviks changed their name to The Russian Communist Party in March of 1918. They did this during the civil war, This caused the allies to fear that communism would spread to their countries if the whites failed to stop the reds. Lenin introduced an economic policy called war communism. -
Czar execution
Nicholas II and his family are executed were killed by Bolshevik troops, Their bodies were then stripped, mutilated, burned of in a field. After the February Revolution the Romanov family and their loyal servants were imprisoned in the Alexander Palace before moving to Tobolsk where they were killed. After stating that “the entire family suffered the same fate as its head”, as they only announced his death. -
Russian Civil war ends
By the end the Bolsheviks had succeeded in securing their grip on power in Russia. The White armies, anti communists, and the foreign powers fighting in Russia have been defeated. As well as rival political parties were outlawed and dissenting voices were permanently silenced thanks to the CHEKA secret police. -
U.S.S.R. established
The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, that is comprised of a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation. This was also known as the Soviet union, this was the successor to the Russian empire and the first country in the world based on Marxist socialism -
Lenin Dies
He died at the age of 54, from a brain Hemorrhage as he was reshaping the Soviet communism. After he died his body was embalmed, preserved from decaying quickly; now a days with our sciences after the body fluids are removed they are replaced with formaldehyde-based chemical solutions. And he was placed in a mausoleum
