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This war was fought largely in the Crimean penisula between Russia against France, Britain, and the Ottoman Empire.  It was caused largely in part by Russian demands to protect Orthodox citizens of the Ottoman Empire.  Russia was decisively defeated and Tsar Alexander II realized that Russia needed to modernize and industrialize quickly in order to compete with Western European powers.

“I bear the Russian man no ill. A Stanislav has as much right to walk God's earth as does a Stanley.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales

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Tsar Alexander II was finally assassinated after six attempts to kill him. Alexander III became the Tsar and was very harsh in preventing political unrest. He disliked the reforms that his father enforced, so much so that he created counter-reforms.

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Alexander III dies and his son Tsar Nicholas II takes the throne.

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The Russo- Japanese War occurs, Russia suffers a shameful defeat. This forces them to militarize and modernize. People are embarrassed and lack a sense of Russian identity.

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on January 9, 1905 150 thousand workers with their wives and children marched to tsar's winter palace. tsar trooped went to confront the protestors and fired on them. Hundreds of people were wounded and 40 people were killed. this also lead to clashes in other places. When the day was over around 200 were dead and around 800 wounded. This day was given the name "bloody sunday"

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in february of 1906 the liberal cadet party denounced any strikes land seizures and the uprising, at this time there was a large amount of pessimism about the future of the country.Petr Stolypin was appointed prime minister.

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In 1914 Russia joined World War I as a member of the allied powers. The government debt in Russia had skyrocketed in 1914.

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In February of 1917, Petrograd, the capital, became the beginning of the Russian Revolution. There were two big strikes on the capital in 1917. There were many casualties amongst the factory workers that worked in Petrograd. After this, angry workers marched to protest, but were stopped by the police.

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Alexander II

Alexander III

Nicholas II

Lenin

Stalin

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Crimean War

autocracy

Serfdom

“autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality”

Pogroms

Russo-Japanese War

Bloody Sunday

mutiny

soviets

Lodz uprising

October Manifesto

Duma

Bourgeois Democratic Revolution (March Revolution) (Provisional Government)

November Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution) (coup d’etat)

Bolsheviks

“Peace, Land, Bread”

“All Power to the Soviets”

“Worker Control of Production”

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk