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Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviiks ar eready to risk anything.
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Russia faced a series of crises because Japan attacked Russians at Port Arthur.They were also competeing for control over Korea and Manchuria.
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Abour 200,000 workers and family approached the czars witer palace and gave a petition. Asking for better working conditions, freedom and an elected national legislature.
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Its leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a consstitutional monarchy. Czar dissolved a duma after 10 weeks.
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Nicholas 2 made the fateful decison to drag Russia into World War 1. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic cost.
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Woman textile workers in Petrograd led a city strike. In the next five days riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel.
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Without warning armed factory workers stormed the winter palace in Petrograd. They took over government offices and arrested leaders of the provisional government.
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Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia surrendered a large part of its territory ro Germany and its allies civil war started.
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Several western nations including the U.S sent military aid to Russia to help. And it helped very little.
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Lenin temporarliy put aside his plan for a state controlled economy. He resorted to a smallscale version od capitalism.
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Lenin suffered a stroke but survived. As general of secretary of communist part he worked behind the sence to move his supporters into position of power.
