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Nicholas II crowned czar of Russia-
Nicholas succeeded to the russian throne after the death of his father Alexander III. -
Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg begins the 1905 Russian Revolution
A group of workers led by the priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to Czar's winter palace to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the rioters killing and wounding hundreds. -
World War 1 begins
World war 1 began after the assassination of the archduke Ferdinand. During the war Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the ottoman empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States.There were more that 16 million people dead. -
February Revolution
The February revolution is ignited by international women's day. 128,000 workers take to the streets with one of their chief demands being the end of WW1. -
Russian war begins
The war was started because of the riots that were occurring and the division in the country. -
Lenin Returns from exile
In March 1917, riots and strikes broke out in Petrograd over the scarcity of food. Demoralized army troops joined the strikers, and on March 15, 1917, Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, ending centuries of czarist rule. -
The October Revolution
The October Revolution begins. By nightfall, Trotsky has led the Red Guards and soviet workers to control all the bridges that cross the Neva and key positions throughout the city, including all roads into the city. Lenin arrives at Smolny, and takes command of the Red Guards and Workers' Soviets -
Bolshevik Uprising fails in Petrograd.
The strike continued, starting to show support for the Duma at the Taurida Palace. 90,000 workers are on strike from 58 different factories. -
Russian Civil war
The Russian Civil War was to tear Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. -
The Bolshevik Party changes its name to the Communist Party
Immediately after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks refused to share power with other revolutionary groups, with the exception of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries; eventually they suppressed all rival political organizations. They changed their name to Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in March 1918; to All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) in December 1925; -
The capital of Russia is changed from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Petrograd has been politically active city with lots of monarchists, anarchists, socialists, liberals etc. That was comparatively easy to take power in such a split city, hence it was easy to loose it as well. Petrograd is a sea port, moreover placed nearby to new border with Finland. It was full of foreigners, including seamen and officers. In conditions of starting Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War - that was really hostile and dangerous contingent. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates his power.
The army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. Nicholas and his family were first held at the Czarskoe Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
In July 1918, the advance of counterrevolutionary forces caused the Yekaterinburg Soviet forces to fear that Nicholas might be rescued. After a secret meeting, a death sentence was passed on the imperial family, and Nicholas, his wife, his children, and several of their servants were gunned down on the night of July 16. -
Russian Civil war ends
In 1920 there was still an organized White force in Crimea, under Gen. Pyotr N. Wrangel, who struck northward at the Red Army and, for a time, occupied part of Ukraine and Kuban. The Red Army eventually battered Wrangler’s forces, whose rearguards held out long enough to ensure the evacuation of 150,000 soldiers and civilians by sea from Crimea. This ended the Russian Civil War in November 1920. -
Lenin suffers second stroke
Lenin suffers his second stroke. After his second stroke he started thinking about who would take over and lead the USSR after he was gone. He continued seeing a government and a party that had strayed far from it's revolutionary goals. -
The Union of Soviet Socialists Republic established
On 28 December 1922, a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Lenin dies
lenin dies and his body is embalmed and installed in the Red Square mausoleum. Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in honor of Lenin.Joseph Stalin succeeded lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
