The Russian Revolution

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Topics:
Overview
Causes
Life During
Nicholas II (1894-1917)
Alexandra (1894-1917)
Grigori Rasputin (d. 1916)
Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905)
1905 Revolution (1905)
Creation of the Duma (1906)
World War I begins for Russia (1914)
Food Shortages in Cities (1916-1917)
Worker Strikes in Petrograd (February 1917)
March Revolution (March 1917)
Abdication of Nicholas II (March 15, 1917)
Provisional Government formed (March 1917)
Petrograd Soviet gains power (1917)
Lenin returns to Russia (April 1917)
Bolsheviks rise in influence (1917)
Mensheviks oppose Bolsheviks (1917)
April Theses announced (April 1917)
Trotsky joins Bolsheviks (Mid-1917)
Red Guards organized (1917)
November Revolution (November 7, 1917)
Storming of the Winter Palace (November 7, 1917)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918)
Russian Civil War begins (1918)
Red Army formed (1918)
White Army fights back (1918-1921)
Execution of the Romanov family (July 17, 1918)
Anastasia Legend (1918-present)
War Communism introduced (1918-1921)
Famine in Russia (1921)
New Economic Policy announced (1921)
Creation of the Soviet Union (December 30, 1922)
Legacy