Timeline

• 1905

  • Bloody Sunday
  • Start of Potemkin Mutiny
  • General Strike begins
  • St Petersburg Soviet formed
  • Publication of October Manifesto
• 1906

  Opening of first Duma
• 1912

  Lena Goldfield's Strike
• 1914

  Russia defeated at Battle of Tannenburg
• 1915

  Nicholas II takes on leadership of Russian armed forces
• 1916

  Assasination of Rasputin
• 1917

  • International women's day protests
  • Army Mutiny
  • Petrograd Soviet issues Order Number 1
  • Nicholas II abdicates - Prov Gov formed
  • Lenin returns to Russia
  • Lenin sets out April Thesis
  • The June offensive
  • The July Days
  • Lenin flees to Finland
  • Kornilov Revolt
  • Trotsky elected president of Petrograd Soviet
  • Lenin returns to Russia in secret
  • Bolsheviks take over Winter Palace
  • Elections for Constituent Assembly
  • Early Bolshevik decrees
• 1918

  • Constituent Assembly dissolved
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed
  • Trotsky becomes war commisar
  • War communism begins
  • Tsar + his family executed
• 1920

  Bolshevik victory in the Civil War
• 1921

  • Kronstadt Naval Mutiny
  • Lenin introduces the New Economic Policy (NEP)
• 1924

  Lenin dies