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Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The chararismatic Vladim ir Lemnin becomes the leader.
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Russia broke multiple agreements between the two countries. Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria.
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200,000 Russian workers brought a petition to the czar's palace. The petiton was asking for more freedoms and better working conditions.
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Russia's first parliament met in May, 1906. This was called the Duma. Its leaders wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy.
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Nicholas II decided that Russia would eneter WWI. This showed the weakness of czraist rule and destroyed the Duma.
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Women textile workers began a citywide strike in Petrograd. The soldiers were ordered to shoot them, but after a while, they began to side with the workers.
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Armed factory workers, who called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards, took over government offices. They destroyed the provisional government.
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Russia and Germany signed a treaty. Russia surrendered a large amount of territory to Germany. This triggered anger among many Russians.
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Lasting from 1918 to 1920, the Russian civil war caused the death of about 14 million Russians. The Red Army, also known as the Bolsheviks, defeated the White Army.
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Lenin formed a new economic policy, (NEP) which was a small-scale version of capitalism. The NEP helped Russia slowly recover from the civil war.
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Lenin had a stroke, leaving his place for Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Stalin began to reach for Lenin's former place before finally gaining command in 1928.
