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Timeline of events during the russian revolution from 1917-1921 (timeline from WIkipeadia.org)
 * [|1917] || February 22 || // [|February Revolution] //: The workers at the [|Putilov Plant] in [|Petrograd] went on strike. ||
 * ^  || February 23 || //February Revolution//: A series of demonstrations were held, demanding the end of the Russian autocracy and the end of Russian participation in [|World War I] . ||
 * ^  || February 25 || //February Revolution//: A battalion of soldiers was sent to [|Petrograd] to end the uprising. ||
 * ^  || February 26 || //February Revolution//: [|Nicholas] ordered the dissolution of the Fourth [|Duma] . The Duma ignored his order and decreed the establishment of a [|Provisional Government] with [|Georgy L'vov] as [|Prime Minister] . ||
 * ^  || February 27 || //February Revolution//: The soldiers sent to suppress the protestors defected and joined them. [|Menshevik] leaders were freed from the [|Peter and Paul Fortress] and founded the [|Petrograd Soviet] . ||
 * ^  || March 2 || //February Revolution//: [|Nicholas] abdicated the throne. ||
 * ^  || March 17 || A legislative council, the [|Tsentralna Rada], was founded in [|Ukraine] . ||
 * ^  || March 30 || The [|Provisional Government] established the autonomous province of [|Estonia] and scheduled elections to an Estonian legislative body, the [|Maapäev] . ||
 * ^  || May 10 || The [|Rumcherod], the Soviet government of southwestern [|Ukraine] and [|Bessarabia] , was established. ||
 * ^  || June 23 || The [|Tsentralna Rada] ratified [|Ukrainian] autonomy. ||
 * ^  || July 3 || // [|July Days] //: A spontaneous pro- [|soviet] demonstration occurred on the streets of [|Petrograd] . ||
 * ^  || July 6 || //July Days//: The rebellion was put down. The [|Provisional Government] ordered the arrest of [|Bolshevik] leaders. ||
 * ^  || July 14 || The [|Maapäev] took office. ||
 * ^  || July 21 || [|Alexander Kerensky] succeeded [|L'vov] as [|Prime Minister] . ||
 * ^  || August 27 || // [|Kornilov Affair] //: General [|Lavr Kornilov] ordered an army corps to [|Petrograd] to destroy the [|soviets] . ||
 * ^  || August 29 || //Kornilov Affair//: The [|Provisional Government] armed tens of thousands of [|Red Guards] to defend [|Petrograd] . ||
 * ^  || August 31 || //Kornilov Affair//: [|Kornilov] was arrested. ||
 * ^  || September 4 || Under public pressure, [|Bolshevik] leaders were released from prison. ||
 * ^  || October 23 || [|Estonian] [|Bolsheviks] under [|Jaan Anvelt] captured the capital, [|Tallinn] . ||
 * ^  || October 25 || // [|October Revolution] //: Soldiers directed by the [|Military Revolutionary Committee] of the [|Petrograd Soviet] captured the [|Winter Palace], ending the power of the [|Russian Provisional Government] . ||
 * ^  || The Second [|All-Russian Congress of Soviets] convened. [|Menshevik] and moderate [|SR] representatives walked out to protest the [|October Revolution] . The Congress established and elected the [|Sovnarkom], and [|Lenin] its first chairman, to run the country between sessions. ||^   ||
 * ^  || October 26 || The Second [|All-Russian Congress of Soviets] issued the [|Decree on Peace], promising an end to Russian participation in [|World War I] , and the [|Decree on Land] , approving the expropriation of land from the nobility. ||
 * ^  || November 21 || The [|Moldavian] legislature, the [|Sfatul Ţării], held its first meeting. ||
 * ^  || December 5 || A local nationalist group, the [|Alash Orda], established an autonomous government in [|Kazakhstan] . ||
 * ^  || December 6 || The [|Finnish parliament] issued a [|declaration of independence] . ||
 * ^  || December 7 || The [|Cheka] was established. ||
 * ^  || December 12 || A [|Muslim] republic, the [|Idel-Ural State], was established in central Russia. ||
 * ^  || December 25 || [|Ukrainian] [|Bolsheviks] established the [|Soviet Ukrainian Republic] in [|Kharkiv] . ||
 * ^  || December 27 || // [|Russian Civil War] //: The counterrevolutionary [|Volunteer Army] was established. ||
 * [|1918] || January 12 || The [|Tsentralna Rada] declared the independence of the [|Ukrainian People's Republic] . ||
 * ^  || January 14 || The [|Rumcherod] declared itself the supreme power in [|Bessarabia] . ||
 * ^  || January 15 || A decree of the [|Sovnarkom] established the [|Red Army] . ||
 * ^  || January 16 || The [|Romanian] army occupied [|Kishinev] and evicted the [|Rumcherod] . ||
 * ^  || January 24 || The [|Moldavian Democratic Republic] declared its independence from Russia. ||
 * ^  || January 28 || The [|Transcaucasian] parliament held its first meeting. ||
 * After January 31 (O.S.), the Bolsheviks adopted the [|Gregorian calendar] . All dates hereafter are given in the [|New Style] . ||
 * || February 18 || The Red Army conquered [|Kiev] . ||
 * ^  || February 23 || Mass conscription to the [|Red Army] began in [|Moscow] and [|Petrograd] . ||
 * ^  || February 24 || The Red Army retreated from [|Estonia] in the face of the [|German] armed forces. ||
 * ^  || The [|Transcaucasian] parliament announced the independent [|Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (TDFR)] . ||^   ||
 * ^  || March 3 || Soviet Russia signed the [|Treaty of Brest-Litovsk], ending its participation in [|World War I] , relinquishing [|Finland] , [|Estonia] , [|Latvia] , [|Lithuania] , [|Poland] , [|Belarus] , and [|Ukraine] , and ceding to the [|Ottoman Empire] all territory captured in the [|Russo-Turkish War] . ||
 * ^  || March 6 || // [|Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War] //: Two hundred [|British] marines arrived at [|Murmansk] . ||
 * ^  || March 25 || The [|Belarusian National Republic] was established by its [|German] occupiers. ||
 * ^  || April || The [|Idel-Ural State] was occupied and dissolved by the Red Army. ||
 * ^  || April 30 || The [|Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR)] was established on the territory of the defunct [|Russian Turkestan] . ||
 * ^  || May 26 || //Russian Civil War//: The [|Czech Legion] began its revolt against the [|Bolshevik] government. ||
 * ^  || [|Georgia] seceded from the [|TDFR] . ||^   ||
 * ^  || May 28 || [|Armenia] and [|Azerbaijan] declared their mutual independence. ||
 * ^  || June 8 || //Russian Civil War//: An anti- [|Bolshevik] government, the [|Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly], was established in [|Samara] under the protection of the [|Czech Legion] ||
 * ^  || June 28 || A decree by the [|Central Executive Committee] made [|war communism], under which all industry and food distribution was nationalized, the economic policy of the Soviet state. ||
 * ^  || June 29 || //Russian Civil War//: The [|Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia] was established in [|Vladivostok] . ||
 * ^  || July || The [|Idel-Ural State] was restored by the [|Czech Legion] . ||
 * ^  || July 10 || The [|1918 Soviet Constitution] was approved by the Fifth All-Russian [|Congress of Soviets] . The legislative power was transferred from the [|Sovnarkom] to the [|Central Executive Committee], which also received the power to pass constitutional amendments. ||
 * ^  || August 30 || After giving a speech at a [|Moscow] factory, [|Lenin] was shot twice by [|SR] [|Fanny Kaplan], but survived. ||
 * ^  || September 3 || // [|Red Terror] // : // [|Izvestia] // called on the Russian people to "crush the hydra of counterrevolution with massive terror." ||
 * ^  || September 23 || //Russian Civil War//: A meeting in [|Ufa] established a unified anti- [|Bolshevik] government, the Ufa Directorate. ||
 * ^  || November 11 || //World War I//: An [|armistice treaty] was signed, ending the war. ||
 * ^  || November 17 || Two [|Latvian] political parties founded a provisional legislature, the [|Tautas Padome] . ||
 * ^  || November 18 || A military coup overthrew the Ufa Directorate and established its war minister, [|Aleksandr Kolchak], as dictator. ||
 * ^  || November 19 || The [|Maapäev] returned to power in [|Estonia] . ||
 * ^  || November 22 || // [|Estonian War of Independence] //: The Russian Red Army invaded [|Estonia] . ||
 * ^  || November 24 || [|Béla Kun], a friend of [|Lenin] , founded the [|Hungarian Communist Party] . ||
 * ^  || November 29 || //Estonian War of Independence//: The Red Army captured the [|Estonian] town of [|Narva] . Local [|Bolsheviks] reestablished the [|Anvelt] government as the [|Commune of the Working People of Estonia] . ||
 * ^  || December || The [|Idel-Ural State] was again occupied and dissolved by the Red Army. ||
 * ^  || December 8 || The [|Communist Party of Lithuania] established a revolutionary government in [|Vilnius] . ||
 * [|1919] || January 1 || Local [|Bolsheviks] established the [|Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR)] . ||
 * ^  || January 3 || // [|Latvian War of Independence] //: The Red Army invaded [|Latvia] . ||
 * ^  || January 5 || The Red Army occupied [|Vilnius], the [|Lithuanian] capital, in support of the local [|Communist] government. ||
 * ^  || The Red Army captured [|Minsk] and pronounced it the capital of the [|Byelorussian SSR] . ||^   ||
 * ^  || January 16 || The [|Orgburo] was established to oversee the membership and organization of the [|Communist Party] . ||
 * ^  || February 14 || // [|Polish-Soviet War] //: The [|Polish] army attacked Soviet forces occupying the town of [|Biaroza] . ||
 * ^  || February 27 || [|Lithuania] was absorbed into the [|Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic] . ||
 * ^  || March 4 || The First Congress of the [|Comintern] began in [|Moscow] . ||
 * ^  || March 21 || Seeking a military alliance with Russia against the [|French], the [|Hungarian] Social Democrats merged with the [|Communist Party] , released [|Kun] from prison and appointed him Commissar for Foreign Affairs. [|Kun] dismissed the president and proclaimed the [|Hungarian Soviet Republic] . ||
 * ^  || March 25 || The Eighth [|Party Congress] reinstituted the [|Politburo] as the central governing body of the [|Communist Party] . ||
 * ^  || April 16 || The [|Romanian] army invaded [|Hungary] . ||
 * ^  || April 21 || //Polish-Soviet War//: The [|Polish] army consolidated its control of [|Vilnius] . ||
 * ^  || May 30 || An anti- [|Communist] [|Hungarian] government headed by [|Gyula Károlyi] was established in [|Szeged] . ||
 * ^  || June 16 || [|Hungarian] occupiers established the [|Slovak Soviet Republic] . ||
 * ^  || July 7 || The [|Czechoslovak] army reoccupied its territory and dissolved the [|Slovak Soviet Republic] . ||
 * ^  || August 1 || Threatened by the approach of the [|Romanian] army, [|Kun] fled to [|Austria] . ||
 * ^  || August 14 || The [|Romanian] army left the [|Hungarian] capital, [|Budapest] . Admiral [|Miklós Horthy] stepped into the power vacuum with the army of the [|Károlyi] government. ||
 * ^  || August 25 || //Polish-Soviet War//: After its total occupation by [|Polish] forces, the [|Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR] was dissolved. ||
 * [|1920] || February 2 || //Estonian War of Independence//: Soviet Russia signed the [|Treaty of Tartu], renouncing all claims on [|Estonian] territory. ||
 * ^  || An insurgency in the [|Khanate of Khiva] forced the abdication of the Khan. ||^   ||
 * ^  || February 7 || //Russian Civil War//: [|Kolchak] was executed by a [|Bolshevik] military tribunal. ||
 * ^  || March 26 || //Russian Civil War//: The [|Volunteer Army] evacuated to the [|Crimea] to join the army of [|Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel] . ||
 * ^  || April 25 || The Russian [|Eleventh Army] invaded the [|Azerbaijan Democratic Republic] . ||
 * ^  || April 26 || The [|Khorezm People's Soviet Republic] was established on the territory of the defunct [|Khanate of Khiva] . ||
 * ^  || April 28 || With the [|Azerbaijani] capital [|Baku] under [|Eleventh Army] occupation, the parliament agreed to transfer power to the [|Communist] government of the [|Azerbaijan SSR] . ||
 * ^  || June 12 || The Soviet Union recognized [|Lithuanian] independence. ||
 * ^  || July 8 || //Polish-Soviet War//: The [|Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR)] was established in [|Ternopil] . ||
 * ^  || August 11 || //Latvian War of Independence//: The [|Treaty of Riga] was signed. Soviet Russia renounced all claims on [|Latvian] territory. ||
 * ^  || August 13 || // [|Battle of Warsaw] //: The battle began with a Russian attack across the [|Vistula] . ||
 * ^  || August 26 || The [|Bolsheviks] defeated the government of the Alash Orda and established the [|Kyrgyz ASSR] [|†]  (1) . ||
 * ^  || August 31 || //Battle// //of Warsaw//: The total defeat of the Russian Fourth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Armies marked the end of the battle. ||
 * ^  || September 2 || The Red Army attacked [|Bukhara], the capital of the [|Emirate of Bukhara] . ||
 * ^  || September 21 || //Polish-Soviet War//: The [|Polish] army occupied [|Galicia] and ended the rule of the [|Galician SSR] . ||
 * ^  || October 8 || The [|Bukharan People's Soviet Republic] was established. ||
 * ^  || November 14 || //Russian Civil War//: [|Wrangel] fled Russia. ||
 * ^  || November 29 || The [|Eleventh Army] entered [|Armenia] . ||
 * ^  || December 1 || The [|Armenian] [|Prime Minister] ceded control of the country to the invading [|Communists] . ||
 * [|1921] || February 16 || // [|Red Army invasion of Georgia] //: The [|Eleventh Army] crossed into [|Georgia] . ||
 * ^  || February 22 || [|Gosplan], the economic planning committee of the Soviet Union, was created by a decree of the [|Sovnarkom] . ||
 * ^  || February 25 || //Red Army invasion of Georgia//: The [|Eleventh Army] captured [|Tbilisi] and announced the formation of the [|Georgian SSR] . ||
 * ^  || February 28 || // [|Kronstadt rebellion] //: The crews of the battleships // [|Petropavlovsk] // and // [|Sevastopol] //, harbored at [|Kronstadt], published a list of demands on the government. ||
 * ^  || March 17 || //Kronstadt rebellion//: After over a week of fighting, government troops pacified [|Kronstadt] . ||
 * ^  || March 21 || A decree of the [|Tenth Party Congress] replaced [|war communism] with the more liberal [|New Economic Policy] . ||
 * ^  || March 18 || //Polish-Soviet War//: [|Poland] and Soviet Russia signed the [|Peace of Riga], ending the war. The disputed territories were divided between Poland, Russia and the newly reestablished [|Ukrainian] and [|Byelorussian] SSRs. ||