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The Decemberist Revolt
The Decembrist Revolt because people were against autocracy and serfdom broke out in Senate Square in St. Petersburg. The uprising was in marked contrast to the era of palace coup plots and had a strong resonance in Russia's society which had much influence on public and political life in the ensuing reign of Tsar Nicholas I. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipated the Serfs
The 1861 Emancipation of the Serfs was Russian leader Czar Alexander II's attempt at reforming Russian society by eradicating serfdom. Russian serfs were like slaves in the United States, with the exception that they were not owned by their landlord. Established by legal code in 1649, serfdom allowed landowners to control virtually all aspects of the peasants who lived on their land. -
Nicholas II becomes czar of Russia
Nicholas II was the last czar to ascend the throne after his father died. He quickly grasped military science and took his country into war with Japan in 1904 and got defeated which resulted in Bloody Sunday. His family was exiled to keep his family from fleeing abroad. They ended up in the Ipatiev House, which was fenced and the boards covered windows and it became their prison. They got insulted and humiliated by Bolshevik soldiers. Then they were shot by a firing squad in the basement. -
The Social-Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
Menshevism was an opportunist trend backed by the bourgeois liberals, and carded liberal-bourgeois trends into the working class movement. Bolshevism set the Social-Democratic workers the task of rousing the democratic peasantry for the revolutionary struggle despite the vacillation and treachery of liberalism. The mass of workers marched with the Bolsheviks during the revolution in all the biggest actions. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence. Japan launches a surprise attack against Port Arthur and the fleet was demolished. During the War, Japan won a series of decisive victories over the Russians. In January 1905, the naval base of Port Arthur fell to Japanese naval forces In March, Russian troops were defeated at Shenyang, China, by a Japanese Field and in May, the Russian Baltic fleet was destroyed by Togo near the Tsushima Islands. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was also the day the Revolution of 1905 started. Bloody Sunday was a massacre and British soldiers shot 26 unarmed cilivlians during a protest marchagainst interment. -
The Revolution of 1905
In St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers who were marching to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II. This "Bloody Sunday" was followed in succeeding months by a series of strikes, riots, assassinations, naval mutinies, and peasant outbreaks. unsatisfied popular demands provoked a general strike in a manifesto issued in October. The czar granted civil liberties and a representative from Duma to be elected democratically. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
Early successes turned to disaster for Russia at the Battle of Tannenberg. Russia suffered a devastating defeat which saw them driven out of Prussia completely. Russia’s last great contribution to World War 1 came in May 1916 with a vast line of operations from Pinsk right down to the German border with Southern Romania. The Russian army inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. The domestic troubles were rapidly coming to a conclusion with unrest becoming widespread amongst the people. -
The March Revolution
A discontent came to a head in Petrograd, but the name was changed to St. Petersburg because the name sounded too German. On March 8th 300,000 workers were locked out of work and riots were forming. The riots got worse and people couldn't get food because they had no moneye sobecause of that they needed to release emergency food supplies. When Czar NIcholas heard about what Duma was doing he ordered them not to meet ever again and Duma disobeyed him. After that, roalty came to an end. -
Czar Nicholas II Abdicates the Russian Throne
He was not ready to rule which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. Nicholas led his country into another costly war. March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. -
Alexander Kerensky becomes the leader of the provisional government
Kerensky was a member of the moderate labor party until the February Revolution in 1917, when he became a leader in the Socialist Revolutionary party. Together with the Bolsheviks, Kerensky helped form a provisional government to replace the overthrown government of the czar. Kerensky became the most powerful member of the provisional government and forced the Bolsheviks underground, arresting Trotsky and several other people. -
The Russian Civil War Begins
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. Groups included the monarchists, militarists, and, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. -
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks capture the Winter Palace
The Bolsheviks spent an entire afternoon and evening trying to arrest the ministers in the Winter Palace. Many of the Bolsheviks could not fire on fellow Russians. Small groups broke through the palace windows and negotiated with the junkers convincing many of them to give up. Some claim that a few shots were fired, little or no violence ensued. The ministers were finally arrested shortly after 2a.m. on October 26 and escorted to prison cells. Kerensky never returned and eventually escaped. -
Nicholas II and his family are executed
After Nicholas was abdicated from the throne they went to two palaces then evantually ending up in the Ipatiev House. The house was allfenced inand there were large boards covering the windows sothey couldn't see out. One day they were sent to the basement and later that night they were shot by a firing squad. -
Vladmir Lenin Dies and Josef Stalin becomes the leader of the Soviet Union
Vladimir was the longest leader for Russia. Stalinwho started being in power in the late 1920's, said that the Soviet Union should focus on protecting it's boreders because it's the best way to becoming more powerful.
