1. 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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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