The Russian Revolution

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    Russian Revolution

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    The Tsarist Regime comes to an end after 370 years.

  • Saint Petersburg Strike

    140,000 strikers
  • Bloody Sunday

  • Fr Gapon's death

  • The CPSU is formed by the Bolsheviks

    Founded by Vladimir Lenin
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    World War One

  • Rasputin's assassination

  • Red Guards

    Became the Core Units of the Red Army.
  • Lenin becomes head of the RSFSR

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    The White Movement (Anti Communism Party)

    Anti-Communism
  • Kerensky leads a February Revolution

  • February Revolution

    The first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. Centered on St Petersburg.
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    February Revolution

  • Nicholas II's forced abdication

  • Provisional Government of the Russian Republic

    The Provisional Government was sworn in immediately following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas 11
  • July Days

    Soldiers and industrial workers engaged in spontaneous demonstrations against the Russian Provisional Government.
  • End of July Days

    Spontaneous demonstrations against the Russian Provisional Government.
  • Lenin is sworn into office

  • Russian Civil War begins

  • Lenin establishes Soviet State

  • Great October Socialist Revolution

    The seizure of state power.
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    Russian Civil War

  • The Whites fought The Reds in the Civil War

  • The Cheka is formed

    The secret police. Led by Felix Dzerzhinsky.
  • Red Guards become part of the Red Army

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    Executions by the Cheka equal 23,733.

  • Formal end of Russian Participatin in WWI

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • Trotsky is in office-PCMNASV

  • Kornilov's Death

  • Nicholas II's death