World War 1

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  • Nicholas II becomes Czar of Russia

  • Russia loses war with Japan

  • Revolution of 1905-Bloody Sunday

  • Russia enters WW1

    Russia enters WW1

  • Dissatisfied workers organize strike

  • Bolshevik Revolution Topples Provisional Government

  • Centuries of autocratic rule by the czars

  • Civil War between Red and White Armies

  • Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne

    Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne

  • Lenin Returns to Russia

  • March Revolution

  • Provisional government is established

  • Bolshevik change name to Communist Party

    Bolshevik change name to Communist Party

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk end Russia's involvement in WW1

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk end Russia's involvement in WW1

  • Revolutionary movements begin and compete for power

  • Lenin establishes New Economic Policy

  • Russia is organized into several self-governing republics

    The bolsheviks saw nationalism as a threat, so they organized Russia into self governing republics.

  • Lenin suffers stroke

  • Stalin becomes Dictator

    Stalin becomes Dictator
    Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.