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Marxists Revolutionaries split--
Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers marched east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where they were attacked by state and local lawmen with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. -
Fundamental Laws
Fundamental Laws (1906), laws promulgated by the Russian emperor Nicholas II, ostensibly to carry out the governmental reforms promised in his earlier October Manifesto. -
Battle Of Tannenberg Begins
On August 26, 1914, the German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian 2nd Army, led by General Aleksandr Samsonov, in East Prussia during the opening weeks of the First World War. -
February Revolution Begins in Russia
The First World War placed an unbearable strain on Russia's weak government and economy, resulting in mass shortages and hunger.
In the meantime, the mismanagement and failures of the war turned the people - and importantly the soldiers - against the Tsar, whose decision to take personal command of the army seemed to make him personally responsible for the defeats. -
Russian Revolution
Russia got their first Communist Government. Nov 6th Bolshevik forces took control of Petrograd Soviet - Provisional Government then quickly collapsed - Nov 8th Lenin announced new Soviet govt: Council of People’s Commissars - he was leader -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Also promised peace - March 3 1918 signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany - gave up east Poland, Ukraine, Finland, Baltic provinces - said it was irrelevant because socialist revolution would make its way through Europe -
Polish-Soviet War
The hostilities between Bolshevik Russia and Poland started as early as 1919. In April 1920, Poland and Ukraine liberated Kiev from Bolshevik control. However, in the summer of 1919, the Bolsheviks managed to push the Poles back to the Vistula, although they were eventually defeated. The second Polish victory in the Battle of Neman finally brought the war to an end. -
Kronstadt rebellion
The Kronstadt rebellion was a major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks. The reason behind the uprising was because the economic policies put in place by the bolsheviks failed. There were food shortages and conditions for the people worsened. Soldiers and Sailors were the ones who began to revolt. Their goal was to take over a nearby military base. -
Treaty of Creation of the USSR
On December 30, 1922, the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty of Creation of the USSR, which saw Soviet Russia united with the other Soviet republics in the west to form a single federal state, the Soviet Union.
