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Marxists revolutionaries desagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
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Russia and Japan signed agreements over Korea and Mancharia. January 22nd, Russia broke the agreement and Japan retaliated and attacked at Port Arthur, Manchuria, Russin revalts in the midst of the war.
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Crowd of workers ambushed Czar's Winter Palace demanding better work conditions, Czar demanded soldiers to shoot into the crowd, killing several hundreds of people and wounding more than a thousand. This event was called, "Bloody Sunday".
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Group of Russians got together because they wanted to become a constitutional government. Czar broke that up after 10 weeks.
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Czar, Russia joined WWI, they were not prepared at all. They had no money or enough equiptment.
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200,000 women texile workers led a strike because of the shortage of bread and fuel.
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Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd, named themselves the, "Bolshevik Red Guards". They took over power of the government offices and arrested leaders of provisional government.
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Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest- Litovsk. Russia surrendered a large part of their territory to Germany and it's allies. Many Russians were very upset about the humiliating terms, because of this, they objected the Bolsheviks and policies and to murder the Royal Family.
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The Civil war finally came to an end in 1920.
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Lenin started something similar to capitalism- called the NEP. It allowed farmers to sell their crops instead of handing the over to the government. The government still stayed in charge of other things. The NEP slowly helped the country recover.
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Russia was named the USSR in honor of the councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution. Joseph Stalin became a dictator. He took over after Lenin suffered a stroke. As general secretary of the communist party, he worked to put his surporters into power.
