Timeline of the Russian Revolution 1905 - Bloody Sunday - Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers January in . 1905 - General Strike sweeps which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution. October 1906 - The promised parliament, the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise. 1911-1914 - A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War 1917 - After several days of demonstrations in Petrograd (formally ) the government February orders troops to open fire. The next day these troops mutiny. The Tsar abdicates when he hears that too has joined the Revolution. Trotsky arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up 1917 - July 3-4 with Kerensky at its head (8th). 1917 The Bolsheviks win control of the Petrograd Soviet. September - 1917 The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government October - 1917 Soviet proclamations on land and peace. October 26-27 - 1917 Kerensky repulsed outside . Lived in exile until his death in 1970. October 30 - 1917 Bolsheviks gain November 2 - 1917 - Vladimir Lenin was formally elected as the head of the new Soviet state November 8 Russian Civil War begins* 1917 November - 1918 - The Bolsheviks accept the dictated peace of Brest-Litovsk from . March 1919 - White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious and turn the tide of the Civil War.* formally declares itself the Soviet Union (USSR) 1922 - December 29-30
Timeline of the Russian Revolution 1905 January - Bloody Sunday - Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in . 1905 October - General Strike sweeps which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution. 1906 - The promised parliament, the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise. 1911-1914 - A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War 1917 February - After several days of demonstrations in Petrograd (formally ) the government orders troops to open fire. The next day these troops mutiny. The Tsar abdicates when he hears that too has joined the Revolution. 1917 July 3-4 - Trotsky arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up with Kerensky at its head (8th). 1917 September - The Bolsheviks win control of the Petrograd Soviet. 1917 October - The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government 1917 October 26-27 - Soviet proclamations on land and peace. 1917 October 30 - Kerensky repulsed outside . Lived in exile until his death in 1970. 1917 November 2 - Bolsheviks gain 1917 November 8 - Vladimir Lenin was formally elected as the head of the new Soviet state 1917 November - Russian Civil War begins* 1918 March - The Bolsheviks accept the dictated peace of Brest-Litovsk from . 1919 - White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious and turn the tide of the Civil War.* 1922 December 29-30 - formally declares itself the Soviet Union (USSR)
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