Russian Revolution Timeline
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- February and March Revolution
- We want a new government! Enough of all this nonsense and unfair treatment for women!
- Overthrow the Tsarist autocracy! The military failures of ww1 had proven a need for change!
- We work day and night, doing our roles properly and efficiently, why don't we get salaries?! We are starving and tired!!
- Lenin Returns To Russia
- Peace, Bread, Land! One cannot live in society and be free from society!
- October Revolution
- Oh no! The Bolsheviks are aiming for our last remaining holdout! Why would they go so far, not only seize Petrograd but also taking control of the Winter Palace?
- Surrender!
- Hah! Bolsheviks rule! It's time for the government to step down!
- A series of public protests began in February of 1917 in Petrograd, finally lasting in the abolition of the monarchy in Russia. The total quantity of injuries and deaths was an estimated 1,300 individuals. On International Women’s Day, advocators of rights took the unequal treatment they were experiencing to the streets, as they protested against their poor life quality and no salaries. After failing to disperse the crowd and finding no use in sending soldiers, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne.
- "Red Terror" and "White Movement"
- Who gave you the confidence to even consider fighting against us Bolsheviks? Ridiculous, naive men!
- In April of 1917, Lenin returned from exile as sent by Germans, traveling to Petrograd by train from Switzerland. He was persecuted because of his attendance at anti-government activities in 1887 and his peers joining him. The Bolsheviks was a revolutionary ethnic group founded by Lenin who was against the continuation of being part of WWI and believed in violence and bloodshed to overthrow the old government. The Bolsheviks had support from the Soviets, a political organization of former Russia.
- Russia's New Economic Policy
- Now Russian citizens will all have their breathing space!
- Deal!
- During the October Revolution in 1917, the Bolsheviks seized control of Petrograd and took control of the Winter Palace, the last remaining holdout of the Provisional Government, a temporary political unit to maintain power until new governments were appointed. After coming to power, they established the Decrees on Land and Peace, which proclaimed the abolition of private property, the redistribution of land among peasants, and the immediate withdrawal of Russia. The Council of People's Commissars aimed to help bring about justice in the nation.
- USSR in Stalin's Era
- Don't even bother to try defeating me Trotsky, you will soon pay for opposing me...just wait for it!
- August of 1918 was the beginning of “Red Terror” where an assassination was attempted on Lenin, thus sparking a period of arresting and executing. The Bolshevik dictatorship of “Red Terror” against its opposition “White Movement” began the Russian Civil War. The “WhiteMovement” included ones that opposed Communism and Socialist factions. In November of 1920, The Bolshevik side’s army attacked and took over Crimea, forcing the enemy and their troops to withdraw.
- At last! No more restrictions! Capitalism is much better!
- march 1921
- Hooray!
- great purge
- NOOOOO!
- No more freedom my people! This all ends now in my era!
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