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A war between Russia and the sweedish empire in nortern europe the sweedish wanted to become an empire like russia. then they tried to concure russia
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A small group of nobles and officials tried to overthrow the czar's government.
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The serf slowed development in russia so the czar somewhat freed them in order to create jobs and gave them little rights after they were freed.
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The 1905 Russian Revolution was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire
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People of russia demanded rights of free speech and voting and peacefully walked up to the czars palace and his secrete police started to fire among the protesters.
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Countries of europe and aisa were forming alliances to form powers and since russia was its own power it tried to take over constantinople and its water ways; germany then begged them to stop and demanded france to sign a treaty saying they would be neutral if a war broke out between germany and russia. later america stepped in to stop this mass of alliances and countries being forced to do things.
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The revolution that occured at the capital and near by stretched for less than a week shows mass demonstrations and armed clashes with police and military as the last loyal force of the Russian monarchy.
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Nicholas 2 resigned from the throne beacuse he built his country to be a great power and watched if fall and when he was named Bloody Nicholas just gave him another reason to leave the throne.
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Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary "People's Will" group. The People's Will, was formed in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia's czarist autocracy. They made several attempts on the czar's life before killing him on March 13, 1881.
