1894 - November: Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia
1903 - August: The Social Democratic Party splits (formation of the Bolsheviks)
1905 - 1905 Revolution
1914 - August: Russia joins the First World War
1917 - February: February Revolution (Tsar abdicates)
1917 - March: Formation of the Provisional Government
1917 - April: Lenin returns from exile
1917 - October: October revolution (Bolsheviks seize power)
1917 - December: Cheka established
1918 - March: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia surrenders to Germany and withdraws from the First World War)
1918 - The Bolshevik Party changes its name and becomes the Communist Party.
1918 - June: Beginning of the Civil War and War communism
1921 - February: End of the Civil War
1921 - March: The Red Army crushes the Kronstadt Rebellion and the NEP is introduced.
1921 - July: The Red Army crushes the Tambov Rebellion
1922 - December: The creation of the USSR (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

	Created by charlotte151996 over 11 years ago

History (1924 - 53) Note on Timeline - Russia before Stalin, created by charlotte151996 on 24/04/2013.