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Marxist revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
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Russia and Japan signed a series of agreements over Korea and Manchuria. Russia broke these agreements, so Japan attacked Russia at Port Arthur
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Workers and families went to Czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to petition for better work conditions and personal freedoms. Czar ordered soldiers to fire into the crowd, killing and injuring over 1,000 people. This is known today as Bloody Sunday.
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The first Duma, Russians first parliment, met in May. Ten months later Czar got rid of the Duma.
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Nicholas the Second decided to take Russia into WW1. But Russia was unprepared for the War. Four million Russain soldiers had been killed, wounded, or taken as prisoners.
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Women textile workers went on strike, nearly 200,000 workers were involved. They rioted over bread and fuel shortages.
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Armed factory workers, that called themselved the Bolshevik Red Guards, stormed the Winter Palace
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Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This treaty had Russia surrender a large portion of it's territories.
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A Civil War ragged in Russia, several nations sent troops to support them, but they were of little help.
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Lenin put aside his plan for a Sate-Controlled economy, and started a small scale plan of capitalism called the New Economic Policy.
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Russia was renamed to the USSR in honor of the council that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution.
