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Pictures courtesy of the David King Collection, London and Novosti Collection

Pictures courtesy of the David King and Novosti collections


Pictures courtesy of Keith McInnes and the David King and Novosti collections
1926: Stalin comes to 1918 onwards: The
Pictures courtesy of the David King Collection, London and Novosti Collection
power. Huge statues of communists change
him are put up, leading Russia. For example,
his people to victory! some Russians get
electricity for the 1st
time.

November 1917: The 1924: Lenin dies


Communists come to and is mourned.
power. Statues of their
leader, Lenin, are put up.
Tsar Nicholas II
– ruler of Russia
1918 – 1921: There is a war in 1905.
between those who don’t want
the Communists to be in power
and those who don’t (the Jan 1905: The Tsar
Russian Civil War). Soldiers in orders his troops to
the war treat the peasants shoot those who are
badly. protesting against him.
This causes a revolution.
1914: Russia joins
World War One and
does very badly. March 1917: There is
a revolution against
the Tsar and he flees.
Poor Russian
peasants in 1905.

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