Key Events
In 1905, Father Gapon led a procession of unarmed demonstrators to the Winter Palace to speak to Tsar Nicholas II. The government's response resulted in massacre which was quickly named this
Bloody Sunday
Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes
At the age of 15, he lost his father and his brother was executed after being caught in a conspiracy to asassinate Tsar Alexander III. As a revolutionary, he would go on to lead the Bolshevik Party and become the founding head of the Soviet Union
Lenin
Endorsed the theories of Karl Marx and believed in a socialist revolution to implement communism. This party was founded 1898 in Minsk and would split in 1903 into to factions.
The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP)
This two month offensive against the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Galicia proved to be a disaster
Kerensky Offensive
The first day of the February Revolution coincided with this celebration, an important day in the socialist calendar.
International Women's Day
The rows in town and strikes are more than provoking…It’s a hooligan movement, young boys and girls running about and screaming that they have no bread, only to excite –
Tsarina Alexandra
He became Prime Minister, leading a cabinet filled with socialist after the events of the July Days
Alexander Kerensky
This faction of the Russian Marxist party were unwilling to compromise their political ideas and refused to cooperate with the government and other political parties and accept anything but the overthrow of the tsar and an immediate transition into communism. They would go on to found the Soviet Union in 1922
Bolshevik
The First Machine Gun Regiment launched a rebellion and led demonstrations calling for the Soviets to take power during the early days of this month in 1917
July/July Days
The government that took power after the Tsar abdicated was called this, after its temporary nature
Provisional Government
The government is tottering. It must be given the death blow at all costs.”
Lenin
This man orchestrated a military coup in an effort to eliminate the influence of the socialist in government
General Kornilov
This party represented agrarian socialists and regarded peasants as the primary revolutionary class. Supporters of overthrowing the Tsar and the redistribution of land to the peasants.
Socialist Revolutionary Party
In late August, this conspiracy emerged to march on Petrograd and "free" the country from radical Socialist
Kornilov Affair/Coup
This act was passed by the Petrograd Soviet, bringing the military under its control
Order Number One
And now we are told: Renounce your victory, make concessions, compromise. With whom I ask?…No, here no compromise is possible. To those who have left and those who tell us to do this we must say: You are miserable bankrupts, your role is played out; go back where you ought to go: into the dustbin of history!”
Leon Trotsky
He proposed a resolution in the Petrograd Soviet for the formation of a Military Revolutionary Committee to organize and oversee the Red Guards
Leon Trotsy
Campaigned for a western style democracy and the expansion of parliamentary powers of the Russian Duma. They endorsed capitalism as the preferred economic system and would have maintained the power of the bourgeois class.
Constitutional Democratic Party (Cadets)
The provisional government had to recruit their support in order to defend Petrograd against a counterrevolutionary conspiracy
The Soviets/Red Guards
This correspondence to the allies was leaked to the Russia public, pledging Russia's commitment to sustaining the war effort, inciting large public demonstrations in April of 1917
Milyukov Telegram
However apparently radical the demands of the feminists, one must not lose sight of the fact that the feminists cannot, on account of their class position, fight for that fundamental transformation of the contemporary economic and social structure of society without which the liberation of women cannot be complete.”
Alexandra Kollontai
A Russian revolutionary who embraced Marxism, she founded "The Woman Worker" journal in 1914, and married Lenin in 1898 while in Exile in Siberia. She would become a member of the Communist Central Committee and had a strong influence in the Soviet education system
Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya.
The representative body of workers and soldiers. It also emerged as an alternative authority to the Provisional government during the Revolution, resulting in a period of dual power
Petrograd Soviet
According to Nikolai Sukhanov's 1922 memoir, the decisive operations against the provisional government began on this day and at this time
October 25th, 2am