Events Leading Up to Russian Revolution The Decembrist Revolt Czar Alexander II emancipates the Serfs The Assassination of Alexander II The Russo-Japanese War Bloody Sunday The Revolution of 1905 World War 1 The March Revolution Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Russian Revolution, October 1917. The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg (Petrograd/Leningrad).
Events leading to the 1917 "October Revolution" in Russia
February/March Revolution of 1917 Duma Reconvenes Bread Rationing Announced Putilov Iron Works Closes Its Doors/National Women's Day Strikes Spread Throughout the City Protests Grow Larger and More Violent Members of Worker's Group Arrested Army Is Called In To Stop Protests Duma Ordered To Disband Petrograd Army Mutinies Provisional Government Is Recognized Imperial Government Falls New Heir Rejects Throne
Russian Revolution (1917). Rally by Lenin and Leon Trotsky in St. Petersburg.