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Alexander III was assassinated
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Nicholas II became Czar
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Russian Marxists split into two groups over
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On January 22, 1905, about
200,000 workers and their families
approached the czar’s Winter Palace
in St. Petersburg. They carried a
petition asking for better working
conditions, more personal freedom,
and an elected national legislature.
Nicholas II’s generals ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd
