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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924

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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 told in 14 chapters on an interactive situation map, with 26 dated maps and 62 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the index: every chapter, map and place as its own page.

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The chapters

Great Reforms of Alexander II
CHAPTER 1 · JUL 1878
Counter-reforms of Alexander III
CHAPTER 2 · MAY 1891
Russian Revolution of 1905
CHAPTER 3 · NOV 1905
February Revolution
CHAPTER 4 · FEB 1917
Dual power in Russia (1917)
CHAPTER 5 · JUL 1917
October Revolution
CHAPTER 6 · NOV 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
CHAPTER 7 · MAR 1918
Outbreak of the Russian Civil War
CHAPTER 8 · JUL 1918
Why the Reds won the Russian Civil War
CHAPTER 9 · FEB 1919
Allied intervention in Russia
CHAPTER 10 · MAY 1919
Dissolution of the Russian Empire
CHAPTER 11 · AUG 1919
Polish–Soviet War
CHAPTER 12 · OCT 1920
From War Communism to the NEP
CHAPTER 13 · JUL 1921
Legacy of the Russian Revolution
CHAPTER 14 · JAN 1924

Russian Revolution maps by year

SEP 1855MAR 1856MAR 18611863JUN 1868JUL 1878MAR 1881MAY 1891FEB 1904JAN 1905DEC 1905AUG 1914MAR 1917JUL 1917NOV 1917MAR 1918JUL 1918NOV 1918JUN 1919OCT 1919JAN 1920OCT 1920NOV 19201921DEC 1922JAN 1924

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Battles, events and sites of memory

◆ 26 Baku Commissars● Abdication of Nicholas II● Allied landing at Murmansk● April Theses● Assassination of Alexander II✕ Basmachi revolt✕ Battle of Kars✕ Battle of Kazan✕ Battle of Tannenberg✕ Battle of Tsaritsyn✕ Battle of Warsaw◆ Bezdna unrest◆ Bloody Sunday✕ Brusilov offensive● Building of the Trans-Siberian Railway✕ Capture of Tashkent◆ Circassian expulsion● Death of Lenin✕ Denikin’s march on Moscow◆ Elisavetgrad pogrom● Emancipation Manifesto● Evacuation of the Crimea● Fall of the Winter Palace● February Revolution in Petrograd◆ Finnish Civil War● Founding of the Soviet Union● French intervention at Odessa● January Uprising● Jewish refugees at Brody● July Days✕ Kerensky Offensive✕ Kiev in the Russian Civil War● Kolchak’s Omsk government● Komuch government in Samara● Kornilov affair◆ Kronstadt rebellion✕ Moscow Bolshevik Uprising✕ Moscow uprising◆ Murder of the Romanov family● Nestor Makhno and the Greens● New Economic Policy● North Russia intervention● October Manifesto✕ Operation Faustschlag● Peace of Riga✕ Perekop–Chongar operation● Potemkin mutiny◆ Proskurov pogrom✕ Red Army invasion of Georgia◆ Red Terror and White Terror● Restoration of Polish independence● Russian Constituent Assembly◆ Russian famine● Russification of the Baltic provinces● Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets● Siberian intervention◆ Siege of Geok Tepe✕ Siege of Sevastopol● Signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk◆ Tambov Rebellion● Trotsky’s armoured train at Sviyazhsk◆ Volga famine

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