The Russian Revolution was a period of upheaval that ended the rule of the tsars and led to the creation of the world's first communist state. In February 1917, strikes and mutinies in Petrograd forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate, and a Provisional Government took charge, but it continued the unpopular war with Germany. In October the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin seized power, and they soon withdrew from the war and moved against their opponents. A civil war between the Red Army and the anti-Bolshevik White forces followed, with foreign intervention, and it ended in a Bolshevik victory. The Soviet Union was formed in 1922, and the revolution's effects on world politics lasted throughout the twentieth century.
Before and after
- 25 December 1916Birth of Ahmad ibn Billah
- 1917Discovery of protactinium
- from 1917 to 1921Ukrainian–Soviet War
- 1917Founding of Federal University of Science and Innovation of Rio de Janeiro
- 1917Russian Revolution
- 16 February 1917Death of Octave Mirbeau
- from 8 March 1917 to 16 March 1917February Revolution
- from 8 March 1917 to 11 March 1917Fall of Baghdad
- 26 March 1917First Battle of Gaza
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