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Japan retaliated by attacking Russia at port Arthur, Manchuria
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200,000 workers and families approached the czar's winter palace, carried petition asking for better working condidtions
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The first Duma met in May, It's leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a constitution monarchy.
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Nicholas II made the fateful decision to drag Russia into World War I. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs.
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Woman textile workers interogated led a city wide strike. For 5 days,riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel.
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Without warming armed factory workers stormed the winter palace in Petrograd, calling themselves the Bolshevik Red Guardsthey took over the government.
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Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia surrendered a large part of its territory of Germany and its allies.
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Several western nations, including the United States, sent military aid and forces to Russia to help the White Army.
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Lenin resorted a small-scale version of capitialism called the New Economic Policy.
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General secretary of the commonist party, he worked behind the scenes to move his supporters into positions of power.
