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Riots, strikes erupted in Petrograd ( Now known as St.Petersburg) over the scarcity of food and the state of the economy; which had been disrupted by the cost of the war.
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Lenin gave several speeches calling for overthrow of provisional government the following days after he returned from exile.A Bolshevik newspaper Pravda published his ideas and it came to be known as the April Theses.
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Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd via a sealed train
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Treaty with Germany. the terms were hard on the russians, it called fro 26% og its population, 27% of farm land and 74% of their iron and coal.
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Lenin was shot 3 times by Fanny Kaplan, a socialist revolutionary, Only 2 of the bullets actually hit him. One hit his jaw and the other one hit his neck.
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Lenin suffers three severe strokes at the age of 54 and dies.
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Members of Lenin's Social Democratic Party in Russia. Believed in the need for a violent revolution in order to create a Communist society
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