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The Great Northern War was fought between Sweden's Charles XII and a coalition lead by Peter the Great. By the end of the war, Sweden had lost her supremacy as the leading power in the Baltic region and was replaced by Peter the Great's Russia.
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The Great Northern War was fought between Sweden's Charles XII and a coalition lead by Peter the Great. By the end of the war, Sweden had lost her supremacy as the leading power in the Baltic region and was replaced by Peter the Great's Russia.
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Four Peace Treaties were made to help end the war. The Death of Charles XII helped to end the waar and create peace once again.
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In St. Petersburg, Russia, a group of military officials staged a revolt against Czar Nicholas I. These rebels were liberals who felt threatened by the new ruler's conservative views. They were, however, defeated by the czar's forces. As a result of this revolt, Nicholas I implemented a variety of new regulations to prevent the spread of the liberal movement in Russia
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It was the first and most important of liberal reforms effected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. The reform, together with a related reform in 1861, amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire. In some of its parts, the serfdom was abolished earlier
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He was assinated in March 13, 1881, at the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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It was a war between Japan and Russia. Russia's miltary failed and it also took a toll on the economy as well. "First Great war of the 20th Centruy."
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When peasents marched to the winter palace to ask for free speech and the ability to read and write. They were shot at, wounded, or even killed.
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The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies.
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Russia first joined the war. Nicohlas got rid of the commander and put himself in charge of the military. When he did that, he left Rasputin, his wife and family at home.
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The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the czarist autocracy.
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After the outbreak of the February Revolution in early March 1917 (Russia used the Julian calender), the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate
