TIMELINE

1905    "Bloody Sunday"

1914    Russia declares war on Austria and Germany

1916    Grigory Efimovich Rasputin murdered

1917    Tsar Alexander II abdicates (March 15)

Provisional Government established

Tsar and family assassinated (June)

Bolsheviks seize power (October)

1918    Russia withdraws from war

Russia signs treaty of Brest-Litovsk

1921    Russian Civil War ends

I. Russia till World War I

Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationalism

Agricultural society – serfdom abolished 1863

90% of population are peasants

1905 Revolution

“Bloody Sunday”

II. The last Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917)

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin (1869?-1916).

III. WW I

Russia unprepared but enters war 1914

Desertions (over 1.5 million by 1917)

Tsar takes command - becomes personally responsible.

IV. The Revolutions

March 15, 1917

Tsar forcibly abdicates to his brother

The Provisional Government established

The October Revolution

Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks

V. Bolsheviks rise to power

Lenin and Trotsky

“Peace, Bread and Land”

“All power to the Soviets”

Rise to Power

June: execute Tsar and family

VI. Civil War (lasts until 1921)

March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Reds vs. Whites

Course of the Russian Civil War

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