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Marxists revolutioaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
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Japan attacked Russia because they broke a series of territory agreements with Japan. This led to a revolt in the midit of war.
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200,00 people approached the czar's Winter Palace demanding better work conditions. Nickolas ll orded them to shoot at the crowd and about 1,000 were wounded and some were killed.
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Duma was Russia's first parliament but only lasted 10 weeks. Duma only lasted that long because Czar was hesitant to share his power.
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Russia joined WWI and was unprepared to handle the military. Germany keep defeating Russia and about 4 million Russain soldiers died in the first year alone.
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Women textile workers led citywide strikes for 5 days and fired up about shortages of bread. After the riots Czar Nicholas ll left his throne because of the loud protests.
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Factory workers stormed the Winter Palace and arrested government leaders. This led to Lenin distributing the farm land among peasents a truce with Germany and gave control of the factories to the workers.
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The Russians and Germans signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia surrenderd a lot of land to Germany and its allies. That triggered wide spread anger in Russia
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The civil war came to a close with over 14 million deaths. The war claimed the majority of the casualties but the famine that followed did contribute to the death total.
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Russia did a small-scale verion of capitalism. Russia still controled major industries but let small businesses to operate under private ownership.
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Russia changed its name to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). That helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution.
