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The assassination of the Czar Alexander II
A member of a group called People’s Will assassinated the Czar Alexander II by throwing a bomb at him in the streets of St. Petersburg. The People’s Will group employed terrorism and assassination in their attempts to overthrow the Russian czarist autocracy. People’s Will murdered officials and tried to kill the czar many times before finally assassinating him. -
Nicholas II crowned Czar of Russia
When Alexander II the czar of Russia was assassinated his son Nicholas II was crowned the czar of Russia. Nicholas wasn’t trained to rule, which did not help autocracy he sought to preserve in the era that need change. He didn’t inspire the fear or the respect his father had commanded. He made the moderate reformers mad because he called their goals “senseless dreams.” -
Bloody Sunday
Peasant groups, industrial workers, the intelligentsia, and non-Russian nationalists within the empire were all seeking a voice in the government.They marched when the people marched peacefully on the Czar’s palace to demand these changes the peaceful march was met by troops who opened fire. About 130 protestors were killing in what came to be known as Bloody Sunday. -
World War I begins
World War I begin after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States.The new technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. When the war was done the Allied powers claimed victory and more than 16 million soldiers were dead. -
Bolsheviks uprising fails in Petrograd
The Germans helped Lenin return to Russia. Once he got there he began to prepare the Bolsheviks to seize power. This was the last gasp of the Russian Army in World War I. There were enough troops scraped together for an offensive but, almost inevitably, the result was a disastrous failure. Lenin made a serious misjudgment which led to a disaster for the Bolsheviks. Only a small number of people still supported the Bolsheviks. A number of Bolshevik leaders were arrested and Lenin fled to Finland -
The February Revolution
The February Revolution began in Petrograd on March 8, 1917 when women factory workers, were mad over the food shortages, and started protesting having to stand in line for bread. They called on men at nearby factories to join them. Within days, nearly all workers in Petrograd were on strike. Army troops were called to end the protests, but instead they joined the protests. -
Czar Nicholas II gave up power
The army in Petrograd joined with the striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to give up his power. The advance of counterrevolutionary force caused the Yekaterinburg Soviet to fear the Nicholas II would be rescued. After a secret meeting Nicholas and his family were sentenced to death. Nicholas, his wife, his children, and some of his servants were gunned down the night of July 16. -
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
Lenin came back to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. Lenin was drawn to the revolution because his brother was killed after planning the assassination of Alexander II. He studied law and practiced in Petrograd where he moved in revolutionary Marxist circles. He helped organize Marxist groups. Lenin and other leaders were arrested and Lenin was in jail for a year and then was exile to Serbia for three years. -
The October Revolution
The Provisional Government was very unpopular, it failed to end the war, it was blamed for food shortages, and it failed to give peasants their land. The Bolsheviks took advantage of the Provisional Government not being liked to gain more support. When Lenin returned to Russia he began to stir up opposition to the Provisional Government. Lenin promised to end the war, give peasants their land, giving workers control of their factories, and gave power to soviets of workers and soldiers in Russia. -
The Bolsheviks party changed to the Communist party
When the czar had power the common people were denied education. The Communist party was the smallest party at the beginning of the Civil war. They changed the name to the Bolsheviks which mean the majority party because they ended up bringing many peasants who wanted to be on the winning side just bh changing their name. After the Bolsheviks won the Civil war they changed their name back to The Communist party. -
Russian civil war begins
Many groups were formed and all were against Lenin’s group called the Bolsheviks. These groups collectively were known as the whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds. The reds became independent and they made six different self governing Soviet republics. The greens were the peasants and fought to keep their land of both red and white. The greens and the whites joined these republics with Russia to form the Union of Soviet. -
The capital of Russia changed from St Petrograd to Moscow
At the beginning of 1918 the Germans were so close to Petrograd that Lenin decide to move the capital to Moscow, which was still far from the front. Petrograd was left to be just a regional center. Other things were changed as well, the street names were changed according to the revolutionary fashion day. Palace Square was changed to Uritski Square after an assassinated Bolshevik politician. -
Russia withdraws from World War I
Russia’s involvement in World War I was the main cause that led Lenin to succeed with Marxism.Germany agreed to a truce and peace talks with Russia.That was broken off when Germany demanded independence for the parts of Eastern Europe that Russia was controlling.Germany’s troops starting moving towards St. Petersburg, which made Lenin sign the Treaty of Brest Litovsk.Germany thought hoped that Russia's territories would fall under their sway, but instead led to dooming Germany Allied domination. -
Czar Nicholas II and his family executed
In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks. The Czar repeatedly dissolved the Duma when it opposed him, that help the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary groups gain support. In March revolution broke out in the streets of Petrograd and Nicholas II and his family were being gunned down in the hail of gunfire in a cellar of the house they were being held in. Those who lived through the gas were stabbed to death. -
Russian Civil War ends
Lenin talked to German to make peace between them, this ended Russia’s part in World War I. Lenin thought that this would get him away from the war, but it didn’t, the Bolsheviks started fighting for the control of the country. The Bolsheviks were usually surrounded, and usually outnumbered by their enemies, and had no military commanders. The Bolsheviks had defeated their enemies and gained victory. -
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was established
After the revolution on Russia the U.S.S.R was established The U.S.S.R was the new communist state was the successor for the Russian empire. It was the first country in the world that was based on Marxist socialism. Decades after it was established, the Russian dominated the Soviet Union and grew into the world’s most powerful, and and influential states and eventually encompassed 15 republics. The Soviet Union was dissolved and the communist government collapse. -
Lenin dies
Vladimir Lenin was the head of the Bolsheviks and the first leader of the Soviet Union, he died on january 21, 1924 do to a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. Lenin left his law career to study Marxism and the provocation of revolutionary activity among Russian workers. After being arrested and exiled to Siberia, he traveled to Western Europe where he established the Bolsheviks. He had the Bolsheviks overthrow the czarist government and set up Marxism government in its place.
