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