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Russian Revolution

By MJeske

  • St. Petersburgh Strikes

    St. Petersburgh Strikes
    120,000 workers strike in St. Petersburg; government warns against any organised marches.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Strikers are fired on at a protest in St. Petersburgh at orders of Nicholas II

  • 1907

    1907
    February 20th: The second Duma opens and includes many socialist representatives, including 18 Bolshevik deputies.
    June 3rd: The second Duma is closed by Nicholas II, after several weeks of criticism and inflammatory speeches.
    June: Stolypin alters the electoral law prior to elections for the third Duma.

  • 1914

    1914
    June-July: A wave of general strikes in St Petersburg reaches a crescendo.
    July 19th: Germany declares war on Russia, boosting patriotic fervour and dampening support for socialist groups.
    July 30th: Prince Georgy Lvov creates the All-Russian Zemstvo Union for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers.

  • Germany declares war

    Germany declares war
    Germany declares war on Russia, causing a brief sense of patriotic union amongst the Russian nation

  • 1918

    1918
    The newly elected Constituent Assembly convenes with an SR majority; Lenin orders the Red Guards to close the assembly after just a few hours of discussion.

  • 1919

    1919
    The Sovnarkom formally announces the beginning of prodrazvyorstka: compulsory grain requisitioning.

  • 1924

    1924
    Lenin passes away after a fourth severe stroke. He is later embalmed and preserved in a mausoleum in Red Square, while the city of Petrograd is renamed Leningrad in his honour.