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Lenin Exiled
Lenin and other Marxist leaders were arrested -
Czar of Russia
Nicolas II is crowned Czar of Russia -
Bloody Sunday
Happened when unarmed demonstrators led by fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard in 1905 and began Russian Revolution -
Period: to
Causes of First world war
A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War -
World War 1 begins
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Lenin Returns
Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd -
Trotsky
Trotsky arrives in Russia after being released from prison by the British Government. -
RCSSO Opens
First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens -
the Kronstadt Anarchists
The Grenadier Guard Regiment returns from the front and joins the Kronstadt Anarchists -
Winter Palace
Bolshevicks take the winter palace and the council of people's commission Led by Lenin is in control of Russia -
Death Penalty Abolished
Soviet proclamations on land and peace. -
Bolsheviks gain Moscow
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The
Russian Revolution comes to an end -
Soviet union law
Decree is passed limiting wages of high paid officials -
Red Army
Led by Leon Trotsky and defeated the Bolsheviks enemy, the White Armies -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Takes Russia out of WWI -
Russian civil war begins
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Execution
Czar Nicholas I and his family are executed -
Red Army Victorious
White Armies attack the Bolsheviks -
Russian civil war ends
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Peasants sweep Russia
. These risings are suppressed but the New Economic Policy is proclaimed that gives the peasants the right to sell their grain surpluses -
Lenin
Suffers second stroke and retires politics -
Lenin dies
Stalin will become his successor
