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Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. -
Russia loses war with Japan
The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
Revolution of 1905 — Bloody Sunday
massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905. -
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Dissatisfied workers organize strike
The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. -
Russia enters World War I
The first offensive Russia launched was in August 1914, against Germany in East Prussia. -
Rasputin is murdered
Rasputin was a holy man and was murdered by Russian nobles eager -
Revolutionary movements begin and compete for power
A social movement may want to make various reforms and to gain some control of the state, but as long as they do not aim for an exclusive control, its members are not revolutionary. -
The February Revolution (March 1917) was a revolution focused around Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), then capital of Russia.
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Bolshevik Revolution topples provisional government
The Provisional Government was formed in Petrograd by the Provisional Committee of the State Duma and was led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by Alexander Kerensky. -
On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a long time of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.
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It was a governent ruled by Tsar Nicholas II
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Civil War between Red and White Armies
The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. -
Russia is organized into several self-governing republics
The Bolshevik Revolution occured in November 1917, when without any warning they took over government offices and arrested the leaders of the provisional government. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends Russia’s involvement in WWI
On March 3, 1918, in the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. -
Bolsheviks change name to Communist Party
During this congress the Bolsheviks changed the name of their party to include the word Communist. -
lenins death remains a mystery for doctors
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Stalin becomes Dictator
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. -
Nicholas II, the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow.
