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Czar Nicholas II promises reforms to aid the troubled country, but does not deliver
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the militery crisis unifies the country and provides a distraction from poor living conditions
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the czar takes control of the army despite having little militery training and leaves his wife behind to rule the country
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unnhappy citizens take the capitol of Petrograd and Nicholas is forced to abdicate, or step down, as czar
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The Russian Army launches one last attack against the Central Powers. The millitary is crushed, opening a weakness for Vladimir Lenin
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The Red Guard attacks the Provisional Government and takes the country in a near bloodless struggle
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after three years of fighting a civil war between the Bolshevik's Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army is victorious
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Lenin creates the New Economic Policy
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The U.S.S.R. is created
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Lenin dies of a stroke