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Defeat in a war with Japan provoked rebellion
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Creation of the Duma
The Duma is the Russia´s Parliament.It´s convoked once but no more times -
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First World War
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The Tsar losts his power. Creation of a Republic
n February 1917 riots broke out in Petrograd. The Tsar lost support and control: his soldiers refused to fire on the mobs or deserted to join the rioting workers. In March the Tsar gave up the throne (abdicated) and a provisional government was formed under the leadership of Kerensky. -
The Bourgeois February Revolution
The provisional government made promises to begin political and social reforms. Yet, on the other hand, they also kept Russia in the war in spite of the fact that most of the Russian population, especially the February protesters, were against the war -
The Workers’ October Revolution
Leon Trotsky set up the Red Guards, a Bolshevik military force. On the 23rd of October (1917) a revolution took place. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, attacked the winter Palace in St. Petersburg and seized power. -
Russia leaves the World War 1
Bolsheviks made peace with Central Empires: Treaty of Brest–Litovsk -
Civil War
In 1918 Russia was divided into two factions: White Russians (the counterrevolutionary elements) and The Red Army (Trosky created one of the best armies in history through discipline, organization and ideology)
The whole Royal Family was executed -
The Bolsheviks finally won the Civil War
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Introduction of a New Economic Policy
The new Economy Policy´s main characteristics:
• Peasants could sell surplus food produce and pay tax on profits. • It allowed small non-state-owned businesses (such as shops …) and they couldmake a profit. • Vital industries (coal, iron, railways …) stayed in state hands. -
Formation of the USSR
Each republic had a government but they all had to be communist, and the system was run centrally by the Politburo (senior council) -
Dead of Lenin
Stalin takes the power -
Trotsky was isolated and thrown out of the Communist Party
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Recover of the previous economy
Because the actual didn´t work -
A Five-Year Plan set targets for all basic industrial factories and workers
Thanks this in 10 years the USSR had almost doubled its industrial output but the price was misery and low living standards for Soviet workers. -
Stalin began collectivising all farms
It was important to increase food production to supply workers in towns and cities -
Collectivization was completed and kulaks had been eliminated
