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Russian battleship built for the Black Sea fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. It is best remembered for a 1905 mutiny by its sailors. -
Bloody Sunday massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905. -
In Russian history, document issued by the emperor Nicholas II that in effect marked the end of unlimited autocracy in Russia. -
A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. -
The Austria-Hungary declaration of war on Serbia in 1914 marked the beginning of one of the deadliest conflicts in human history, World War I. -
Germany declares war on Russia, ostensibly in response to Russian mobilizatio. With this one, they officially entered WW1. -
The Bolshevization of the soviets was the process of winning a majority in the soviets by the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks). -
The revolution began, but it was neither organized nor immediately recognized as such by any of the existing parties or political groups. -
When riots broke out in Petrograd, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. -
Lenin rallied support for the Bolsheviks by championing the simple but powerful slogan "Peace, Land, Bread," promising an end to World War I. -
The October Revolution was the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. It was led by Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks. -
The Red Army's multi-front Russian Civil War (1917-1922) pitted them against diverse anti-Bolshevik forces: the Whites (monarchists, liberals, nationalists, imperial officers), Greens (peasant militias fighting requisitions) and nationalists.
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An armistice was signed between the Russian Republic led by the Bolsheviks on the one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire. -
The Czechoslovak Legion was sparked by Bolshevik attempts to disarm them along the Trans-Siberian Railway, didn't ignite the Russian Civil War but massively catalyzed it, -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk officially ended Russia's involvement in World War I. -
The abdicated Russian Imperial Romanov family (were shot and stabbed to death[ by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia's WWI participation, ceding vast lands, but was annulled by the November 1918 Armistice that ended the war. -
The New Economic Policy (NEP) was introduced by Vladimir Lenin in Russia to combat severe economic collapse, famine, and social unrest following the Russian Civil War and the harsh policies of War Communism.
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The USSR was officially formed in December 1922, consolidating Bolshevik control established after the 1917 October Revolution. -
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma.