The Russian Revolution dismantled the Tsarist Russian Empire and led to the emergence of the Soviet Union. The events of the Russian Revolution, in chronological order, are displayed as follows:
- A rebellion forces Tsar Nicolas II from power. After the abdication of the old regime tsar Nicholas II, a provisional goverment was established. This was the first stage of the revolution which took place in February 1917.
- Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power. This was the second stage, in October 1917. As a result, the previous Empire was reorganized as the world's first socialist republic, which aimed to practice socialism both in a national and international scale.
- Involvement in World War I causes hardships in Russia. Russia was suffering invasions by the armies of the central powers (the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire)
- Russia pulls out of World War I, in March of 1918, after signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the central powers, breaking all the former treaties that the Empire had signed with the allied forces.