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Royal family murdered
they were led to their cellar under the impression that they were going to have a photo taken, but instead the whole family, "children and all" were shot and killed -
Rasputin Assassinated
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Czar Nicholas II abdicates
his rule lasted around 20 years, his rule incompassed Russia being one of the worlds strongest military powers to a bloody mess. He led his nation to a loss against japan. and was abdicated after the February revolution -
March/February revolution
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Petrograd Soviets formed
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Bolshevik Revolution (seized the Winter Palace)
also known as the october revolution. led to russia becoming the soviet union -
Russian Civil War
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Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
On the 3rd December 1917 a conference between a Russian delegation, headed by Leon Trotsky and German and Austrian representatives began at Brest-Litovsk. Trotsky had the difficult task of trying to end Russian participation in the First World War without having to grant territory to the Central Powers. -
Communist control Russia
lasted from 1918 through 1941 -
Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia
Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, he fought Ukrainian national troops
