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Marxist revolutionairs disagree over tactics. Radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything, Vladimir Lenin takes leader.
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20,000 workers aproached the winter palace for better workers' rights. Under orders, soldiers fire on the crowd.
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Japanese attack Port Arhur, the news of the attack sparked civil unrest in Russia.
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The first Duma (Russian Parliament) meets. They wanted a constitutional monarchy, much like Britain. The Czar dissolved the Duma after 10 weeks.
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As Russia entered into WW1, they realized they couldn't handle war costs. Troops were poorly equipted becuase of weekness in Czar rule and military leadership.
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Women textil workers in Petrograd begin to revolt. Eventually nearly 200,000 workers shouted to end the autocracy and war.
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Lenin and Bolsheviks begin to rise to power. People shout "All power to Svoiets!" "Peace, land, and Bread!"
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Russia signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. This treaty gave up much Russian land. Russian citizens engraged.
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Continuos civil war in Russia between Pro-Czar white armies, against a Bolshevik red army comanded by Leon Trotsky.
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Policy allowed peasoents to sell crops instead of giving them to the government, business and private ownership begins.
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To check nationalism, Russia was divided into self governing republics. Lenin has a stroke in 1922.
