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🗳️ Bolsheviks and Mensheviks Emerge from RSDLP Split
July – August: In Russia the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks form from the breakup of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.⟶

SocialismMarxismRussian RevolutionBolsheviksVladimir LeninPolitical PartiesIdeologyPolitical Division

🩸 Bloody Sunday: St. Petersburg Massacre Sparks Revolution
January 22: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia erupts.⟶

RevolutionTsar Nicholas IIProtestPolitical UnrestAutocracySocial Reform

🇷🇺 Bolsheviks Seize Power in Petrograd
November 7 (O.S. October 25): October Revolution in the Russian Republic.⟶

Russian RevolutionBolsheviksVladimir LeninSoviet UnionCommunismSocialismCivil War

🇷🇺 February Revolution Overthrows Russian Empire
March 8: Russian Revolution ends the Russian Empire; beginning of Russian Civil War.⟶

Russian RevolutionRussian EmpireTsar Nicholas IICivil WarBolsheviksWorld War IPolitical InstabilityRevolution

🔪 Execution of Tsar Nicholas II and Family
July 16 – 17: Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.⟶

Russian RevolutionRomanov DynastyBolsheviksCivil WarCommunismPolitical ViolenceMonarchyWorld War I

⚰️ Lenin's Death Sparks Stalin-Trotsky Power Struggle
January 21: The death of Vladimir Lenin triggers power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.⟶

CommunismSoviet UnionPolitical IntrigueLeon TrotskyJoseph StalinRussian RevolutionTotalitarianismDictatorshipIdeology
