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Decembrist Revolt
3000 members of military staged an uprising against the newly-appointed Tsar Nicholas I, in opposition to his conservative views. The results of this revolt would soon grow into something much larger and would lead to the beginning of revolutionary sentiment among the people of Imperial Russia. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Alexander published his Emancipate Manifesto in March. It quicky turned into a law. All privately owned serfs were given rights to be a free citizen, free to marry, and own a business. -
Nicholas II becomes Czar of Russia
Nicholas II was born on May 18. Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia. He ruled until 1917 when he was abdicated. He maried German Princess Alexandra Feodorovna. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. -
Bolsheviks and Melsheviks split
Both groups were enthusiasts for the destruction of capitalism and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, but the Mensheviks, led by Martov, favoured a large, loosely organised democratic party whose members could agree to differ on many points. They were prepared to work with the liberals in Russia and they had scruples about the use of violence. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, were hardline revolutionaries who would not have known a scruple if it bought them a drink. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained complete victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. -
Revolution of 1905
The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected -
World War 1 Russia
Russia had the largest army in the war. When expanded they had about 5,000,000 soldiers and only 4,600,000 rifles. Not every soldier had a weapon. The Russian Ministry of War was commanded by General Sukhomlinov. -
Mrach Revolution
workers in the city’s largest factory (the Putilov engineering factory) demanded a 50% wage increase so that they could buy food. The management refused so the workers went on strike. 30,000 workers were lccked out of work. The throne was offered to Grand Duke Michael but he did not want it. It became clear to Nicholas that the Provisional Government did not want a tsar and he was forced to give up the throne. -
Czar Nicholas abdicates his throne
The army in Petrograd went on strike, demanding more. Which then forced Nicholas to abdicate. -
Bolsheviks storm Winter Palace
Throughout the spring and summer he attempted to rally the crowds in the streets of St. Petersburg through rabble-rousing speeches that called for Russia’s immediate withdrawal from the war. However, his efforts to transform the enflamed passions of the people to a march on the headquarters of the Provisional Government at the former Czar’s Winter Palace failed. -
Kerenshy becomes leader
was a lawyer and major political leader before the Russian Revolutions of 1917 belonging to a moderate socialist party, called Trudoviks. After the February Revolution Kerensky served as Minister of Justice in the democratic Russian Provisional Government. In May he became Minister of War. In July he became the second Prime Minister until it was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. He spent the remainder of his life in exile, dying in New York City at the age of 89. -
Russain Civil War
Was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces. Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies.The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919. The remains of the White forces commanded by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel were beaten in the Crimea and were evacuat -
Nicholas and his family were executed
Russian Czar Nicholas II and his immediate family were executed by Bolsheviks in the cellar of Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, ending the Romanov dynasty. -
Vladimir Lenin died and Josef Stalin becomes leader
Following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He remained general secretary until1929. -
Bloody Sunday
Where unarmed protestors led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
