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Nicholas becomes czar in the late 1800's, and continues the Russion autocracy rule.
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Revolutionary groups that following the view of Karl Marx were called Marxists. Such groups like Bolsheviks, tried to gain power and have the workers rule the country
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A rage of violence and strikes against Czar Nicholas to get better working conditions and freedom,
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Nicholas II decides to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs.
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Trans-Siberian railway was completed which connected European Russia in the west with Russian ports on the Pacific Ocean east,
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A local women protest to about shortages of bread turned into a general uprisisng forcing Nicholas II to abdicate his throne.
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The Bolsheviks take power and ordered demands to help the workers of Russia.
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Lenin restored a small-scale version of capitalism called the New Economic Policy.
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Stalin climbs to the head of power and tries to put his supporters into positions of power.
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The uprising of revolution took Nicholas II out of the throne, and he was executed along with his family the next year.
