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the lower class at the time was upset because of unfair treatmeant
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After the Revolution of 1905, Czar Nicholas II agreed to form an advisory council, the Bulygin Duma of August 1905.
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this was an alliance of political forces formed to have a confident government. they occupied 236 of the 442 seats in the Imperial Duma
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this is the first of two revolts to occur, which was centered around Petrograd which was formerly St. Petersburg.
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During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.
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In response, the Petrograd Soviet issued Order Number 1. The order instructed soldiers and sailors to obey their officers and the Provisional Government only if their orders did not contradict the decrees of the Petrograd Soviet.
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The Provisional Government accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Milyukov and War Minister Guchkov, and made a proposal to the Petrograd Soviet to form a coalition government. As a result of negotiations, on 22 April 1917 agreement was reached and 6 socialist ministers joined the cabinet.
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Lenin gave several speeches calling for the overthrow of the provisional government. On April 7, the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda published the ideas contained in Lenin’s speeches, which collectively came to be known as the April Theses.
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Kerensky belonged to theSocialist Revolutionaries, the Petrograd Soviet and was a member of the Duma. He was therefore seen as a solid representative of the working class and in July 1917 became the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government.
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100,000 workers went on strike in Petrograd protesting food shortages and poor working conditions. On the same day, the State Duma reconvenes and attacks the gov about shortages.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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As a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries Kaplan viewed Lenin as a ‘traitor to the revolution’, when his Bolsheviks banned her party. On 30 August 1918, she approached Lenin as he was leaving a Moscow factory, and fired three shots, badly injuring him.
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The Russian Republic was a short-lived state that controlled, de jure, the territory of the former Russian Empire after the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II.
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