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Alexander succeeded his father, and halted all reforms in Russia. He believed in "autocracy" where he had complete control and power.
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Russia began to build buildings, and factories. Railroads were beggining to be built and the revolutionary movement began to grow. However, this brought low wages, and new problems.
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Groups began to devolp thinking that all the lower class people could over throw the Czar. They hoped that they could eventually rule over the country as "a dictatorship of the proletariat".
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200,000 workers and their families approached czar's Winter Palace is St. Petersburg. They wanted more freedom and better wages. Nicholas ordered for soilders to fire at the crowd, 1000 people were wounded, and more killed.
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Russia wasnt prepared for the military and economic costs that the war would put on them. Defeat after defeat, 4 million Russians were killed. Nicholas or his wife Alexandra, werent able to control their military or government.
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks gained control of the Petrograd soviets, and soon other major cities in Russia. Soon, factories were stormed, farm land was distributed, treatied were stoped being signed with Germany, and a Civil War also erupted.
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Textile working women led a strike in Petrograd. There were shortages of bread and fuel. 200,000 people started in the riots. At first the soilders shot at them, but later they joined the riots them selves.
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All of the protesting and riots made Nicholas step down from his throne. A year later, him and his family were executed. The three century czarist rule had ended.
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War and revolutions destroyed the Russian economy. Lenin put in new economic policy, and he made political reform. The gov started to take control industries, banks. and communication. He also reformed the Communist Party.
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He became the general secretary of the Communist Party. He worked to move his supporters into powerful positions. He died in 1924.
