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revolutionaries angry over slow pace of political change, assassinated the reform minded czar, Alexander II
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Nicholas II becomes czar and continued the tradition of russian autocracy
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russia becomes 4th ranking steel maker
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200,000 workers and families approached the czars winter palace carrying a petition asking for better working conditions, personal freedom, and elected national legislature, although the generals ordered to fire on the peaceful protesters and over 1,000 were injured and several were killed
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Nicholas II made the decision to take russia to war although it was barely prepared for it
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Nicholas II moved his headquarters to war front
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trans-Serbian railway is finally finished
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Women went to the streets to protest and soldiers fired on them...eventually the soldiers joined them in their protest
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Russia and Germany signed the treaty of brest-litovski
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war raged for 2 years and western countries sent support, ended in 1920