Russia - Timeline

• January: Bloody Sunday, protesters against the Tsar fired on by troops. 400,000 workers strike.
• February: Tsar's uncle assassinated in Moscow.
• March: Russian army defeated by Japan.
• June: Liberals demand freedom of speech; mutiny of the Potempkin.
• July: Peasants begin to riot in countryside
• September: Peace signed with Japan, troops return to quell unrest.
• October: Strikes spread across Russia. St Petersburg Soviet formed (Oct 26th). Tsar gives in with October Manifesto (Oct 30th).
• December: Tsar regains control, St Petersburg Soviet broken up. Troops take violent revenge.

• Russian industrial boom

• Peter Stolypin assassinated

• Russia enters the First World War.
• Tannenberg & Masurian Lakes disasters.

• Tsar Nicholas takes control of the Russian army

• Rasputin murdered.

• March: First Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas abidcates.
• April: Lenin returns. April theses; "Peace, Bread, and Land!"
• July: Anti-war riots, troops quell unrest & Lenin flees
• August: Kornilov affair; Bolshevik supporting peasants gain arms from the Provisional Government
• November 7: Second Revolution: Communists take power from Provisional Government. Storming of the Winter Palace.

• Russian Civil War begins. War Communism policy begins.
• Jan 5: Constitutional Assembly has its only meeting before being broken up by Bolsheviks

• March: Kronstadt uprising
• Spring: New Economic Policy introduced; Mensheviks and SRs banned

• Russin Civil War ends.

• January: Death of Lenin.

• Stalin comes to power.