RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - 1917 END TO TSARIST AUTOCRACY END TO ROMANOV DYNASTY ESTABLISHMENT OF SOVIET UNION 8TH MARCH TO 8TH NOVEMBER: GREGORIAN CALENDAR 22ND FEBRUARY TO 26TH OCTOBER: JULIAN CALENDAR

FACTORS…… COLLAPSE OF AUTOCRACY ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS RUSSO JAPANESE WAR OF 1905 REVOLUTION OF 1905: BLOODY SUNDAY 26 OR 9 JANUARY 1905- GEORGY GAPON FIRST WORLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HUMILIATION GREGORY RASPUTIN

COURSE… MARXIST RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY MENSHEVIK BOLSHEVIK LIBERAL ARISTOCRATS AND SOCIALISTS……FEBRUARY ARISTOCRATS: PRINCE GEORGY YEVGENEVICH LVOV SOCIALISTS: ALEXANDER KERENSKY MARCH 2: ABDICATION OF NICHOLAS II BLOODLESS TRANSFER OF POWER PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT PETROGRAD SOVIET OF WORKERS’ AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIES ORDER NO.1 JULY: DEMONSTRATION (X) PROV GOVT.. VLADIMIR LENIN

COURSE… OCTOBER REVOLUTION LENIN: RED GUARDS 25TH OCT: CAPTURE OF ALL OFFICIAL BUILDINGS 26TH OCT: ALL RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF SOVIETS BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT: VLADIMIR LENIN

RESULTS… ELEMINATION OF IMPERIAL RULE INSTITUTION OF COMMUNIST RULE ELEMINATION OF RELIGIOUS ORDERS ESTABLISHMENT OF REPUBLIC EXECUTION OF ROYAL FAMILY CREATION OF SOVIET UNION LAND OF IRON CURTAIN CONCEPT SUPER POWER RIVALRY IDEA OF COLD WAR