1. On page 21, we will make a timeline of the Russian Revolution
There will be 8 dates
Each will have a title & explanation
Timeline title =
Russian Revolution
Learning Goal 3: Identify the causes of the February and October Revolutions in Russia and describe how the Russian Revolution affected the outcome of World War I and led to Bolshevik rule in the Soviet Union. (TEKS/SEs 10D, 12A)

2. 1905 Czar Nicholas in Power Czar (also Tsar) = emperor Bloody Sunday
Ruled as an autocrat (absolute monarch)
Bloody Sunday
Peasants & workers live under terrible conditions
Protest & petition Czar for reforms
Soldiers open fire on unarmed protesters
Revolts & strikes break out across the empire
Results in some reforms & creation of the Duma (elected legislative body)

3. 1914 Russia joins WWI and does poorly
Local soviets (councils of workers/peasants and soldiers) wanted:
Russia out of World War I
economic stability
land reform

4. 1917 February Revolution Czar Nicholas flees
Worker strikes, food shortages and huge losses in World War I cause Czar Nicholas II to abdicate (give up) the throne in 1917
A provisional (temporary) government established and some liberal reforms were introduced, but refused to get out of the war

5. 1917 October Revolution Peace, Bread, Land
Bolsheviks = Political party that most attracted the soviets
Led by Vladimir Lenin
Marxist
Lenin and followers (military leader Leon Trotsky) overthrow provisional government

6. March 1918 Soviets sign treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty gives huge piece of land to Germany as a concession to leave the fighting in World War I.
Russia is now out of the war

7. Summer 1918 Czar Nicholas II and family executed
The Romanovs
Anastasia

8. Civil War erupts
“Whites”-supporters of the czar vs. “Reds”-Bolsheviks
Anti-Bolsheviks don’t want communist take-over
In spite of opposition to communism, threats to Russia by Allies at the end of World War I unified Russians as they sought to defend their homeland- nationalism. 

9. 1921 Lenin introduced New Economic Policy (NEP)
Retained some capitalist aspects & renamed Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).