Russian Revolution/Russian Civil War

  • Pre-Revolutionary Russia

    Nicholas ll became czar and was the last ruler from the Romanov family.
  • Russo-Japanese War

    A defeat for russia in the war led to their political instability.
  • Abdicated Power

    Czar Nicholas ll gave up his power on this date and ended the 300-year Romanov dynasty in Russia
  • The Russian Revolution

    Bolsheviks staged a coup d’etat in St. Petersburg, overthrew the provisional government, and members of the provisional government fled or were arrested.
  • Communist Party

    Bolshevik Party officially renamed the Communist Party because they wanted to spread the communist revolution around the world.
  • Peace with Germany

    Russian signed a peace treaty with Germany and lost much of their western territory and a third of their population.
  • Surrendered

    'The Whites' surrendered in 1921 because they were outnumbered, disorganized, and poorly equipped.
  • Russia

    Russia becomes USSR and a new constitution is written. This makes russia a socialist state and was now supposed to be ran by the workers.
  • Lenin Deaths

    Lenin died in 1924 at the age of 54.
  • Lenin

    He ruled for 3 years and had complete rule of Russia,
  • Trotsky vs. Stalin

    Ability to remove and appoint government officials
    Once he gained control of the government, he exiled Trotsky to Siberia in 1929
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    He ruled the soviet union from 1929-1953 and was responsible for the next major extension of communist control.
  • Romanovs

    Was the second dynasty, after the Rurik dynasty, to rule over Russia, which reigned from 1613 until the abdication of Czar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the February Revolution.
  • 27 million russians died