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Nicholas's minister launched a program to move the country forward. The government saught foreign investors and raised taxes which boosted the growth of heavy industry. This brought new problems like poor working conditions and child labor and more.
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He continued to use the tradition of Russia autocracy but as times changed it did not work.
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Severnal revolutionary groups started to grow and compete for power. A group called Marxist beleived that workers would overthrow the czar.
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200,000 workers and their families approach the czar's winter palace and asked for more freedom, and a national legislation. Soldiers fired on the crowd. More than 1,000 were wounded and several hundred were killed.
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Nicholas made the fateful decision to drag Russia into WWI. They were no match to the German forces. More that 4 Million soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner.
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The march revolution forced Nicholas II to abdicate his throne. A year later he was executed with the rest of his family. The czarist rule then collapsed.
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After Nicholas II was executed a different kind of government was taken into place. They estabilished a provisional government and soviets was a group that influenced Russia alot. In late 1917, soviets had much influence over Russia andstormed the winter palace which was the first tep in causing a revolution.
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Women textile workers led a citywide strike. In five days riots sparked over shoratges of food and fluel. Soldiers were ordereded to shot the rioters but ended up joining them
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War and revolution restored the Russian economy. Lenin comes to power to try to resore order
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Lenin suffers a stroke and Joseph stalin came to powe as a dictator. He was very cold and impersonal but was in total of command of Russia.
