Post on 09-Aug-2015
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Sequence of Basic Events
1881
Alexander III reverses many of the Reforms of His
Predecessors
1891
Trans-Siberian Railway begun, signally dramatic
increase in Russian Industrialization
1894
Nicholas II becomes Czar
1903
Lenin Takes Over the Bolshevik Party
1904
Russians defeated in Russo-Japanese war
JAN 1905
“Bloody Sunday” revolt at Winter Palace
OCTOBER 1906
Nicholas II creates the Duma as part of “The October
Manifesto”
1914
Russia Enters World War I
MARCH 1917
Women textile workers lead a city-wide strike:
“The March Revolution”
MARCH 1917
Nicholas II Abdicates his throne
1917
Duma creates Provisional Government, led by
Alexander Kerensky
APRIL 1917
Lenin returns from Exile (left in 1906)
APRIL 1917
Lenin begins his “Peace, Land & Bread” campaign
NOV 1917
Bolshevik Red Guards take over Provisional
Government
1918
Treaty of Brest Litovsk Between Germany Russia; end
of war for Russia, but land lost and self esteem damaged
1918-1920
Civil War: Reds vs Whites
1921
Lenin creates his New Economic Policy (NEP)
1922
Lenin creates the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics)
1924Bolsheviks rename their party
“communist”& created a constitution. Actually became dictatorship of the party, not the proletariat as Marx was
aiming for
1929
Stalin Comes to power