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