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Russia and Japan competed for control over Korea and Manchuria. They both signed a series of agreements over the territories, but Russia broke them.
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Nicholas's most capable minister launched a program to move the country foward. The government sought foreign investors and raised taxes.
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Wiht the help of British and French investors, work began on the worlds largest continuous rail line. It connected European Russia in the west with Russian ports on the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Nicholas became czar. He continiued the tradition of russian autocracy.
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Lenin fled to western Europe to avoid arrest by czarist regime. He maintained contact with other Bolsheviks, then waited until he could safely return to Russia.
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Russia became the worlds fourth-ranking producer of steel. Only the US, Germany, and Great Britain produced more steel.
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Russian Marxists split into two groups over revolutionary tactics. The more moderate Mensheviks wanted a broad base of population support for the revolution. The more radical Bolsheviks supported a small number of committed revolutionaries willing to sacrifice everything for change.
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Russia had faced a series of crises. These events showed the czar's weakness and paved the way for revolution
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200,000 workers and their families approached the czar's Winter Place in St. Pettersburg. They petitioned asking for better working conditions, more freedom, and an elected national legislature. Soldiers were ordered to fire the crowd, leaving more then 1,000 wounded and several killed.
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Nicholas II made the fateful decicion to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs.
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Nicholas moved his heaquarters to the war front hoping to rally his discourage troops to victory.
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Women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. Riots flared over shortage of bread and fuel. Nearly 200.000 workers crowded the streets yelling "Down with the autucracy!" and "Down with the war!"
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks soon gained control of the Petrograd soviet, as well as the soviets in the other major Russian cities. People in the cities were rallying to call, " All power to the solviets".
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The March Revolution forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate his throne. The three-century czarist rule of the Romanovs finally collapsed.
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Without warning, armed factory workers stormed the Winter Place in Patrograd. They called themselves the Bolshevic Red Guards, they took over government .offices and arrested the learders of the provisional government
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Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy. He restored to a small-scale version of capitalism called the New Economis Policy (NEP).
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The country was named the Union of soviet Socialist Republics, in honor of the councils thats helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Salin began his ruthless climb to the head of the government.
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As general secretary of the Communist Party, he worked behind the scenes to move his supporters into position of powers.
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The communists created a constitution based on socialist and democratic principles.
