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In the early 1900’s, Russia’s economy slowed, the country waged an unsuccessful war with Japan
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On Jan. 22, 1905, thousands of men, women, and children peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital. Their intention was to deliver a petition asking for better working conditions and a democratically elected assembly. The czar's soldiers fired on the demonstrators, killing or wounding hundreds of them.
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The czar dissolved the first two Dumas (1906 and 1907) after only a few months
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Germany declared war on Russia in August 1914
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the Russian people rebelled against Czar Nicholas II
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Nicholas and his family were later taken into custody. The Bolsheviks killed them at Yekaterinburg in 1918.
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the Russian Communist government formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union. In April 1922, Joseph Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party.
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From this position, he gained control of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin in 1924
