Russian Revolution Timeline

1894

Nicholas II becomes Tsar Will rule with total control

1903

Russian Marxist Party splits: Mensheviks Bolsheviks

1905-1905

Russo-Japanese War Russian Army and Navy Defeated

1905

Bloody Sunday Massacre Revolution of 1905

1905

Revolution of 1905 put down Russia establishes a Duma (Parliament)

1908

Soviets form – organizations of workers that serve as local governments

1914-1918

The Great War

1914

Nicholas II takes control of the Army, goes to the front So… he is not present to run the government from

Petersburg

1916

Rasputin, healer and advisor, is assassinated

1917

March Revolution Forces Nicholas II to abdicate for himself and son Provisional government established War continues in Europe

1917 Germany sends Lenin (revolutionary) back

into Russia He had been exiled for stirring up discontent Slogan: Peace, Bread, and Land!

1917

October (November) Revolution Bolsheviks (led by Lenin and Trotsky) take over

government with support of military

1918

Russia ends involvement in WWI Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Gives up 1/3 of population

and ¼ of territory to avoid invasion by Germany

1918-1922

Civil War in Russia Reds (Communists) v. Whites

1919

Romanov Family executed

1921

Lenin issues the New Economic Policy

1923

Lenin suffers a stroke, becomes an invalid Dies in 1924

1929

Joseph Stalin takes control of Communist Party in Russia Issues 5-Year-Plan to industrialize Russia