The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour

On 30 December 1922, the Soviet republics were forged into one single republic – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

The October Revolution in Petrograd on 7 November (25 October, Old Style) was not, in fact, the first socialist uprising within the Russian empire. Two days before, Jaan Anvelt, an Estonian Bolshevik, led a successful uprising in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

1894, aged only forty-nine, Alexander III died of kidney disease