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In the 1800s Russia was far less industrialiized than western Europe. They had a system called Subsistence agriculture which means they only grew what they needed .During this time Russia was ruled by a powerful monarch called Czar alexancer the 2nd
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Czar Alexander the 2nd timespan
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Czar finally freed the serfs (Serfs are slaves) Over the next 20 years he introduced a series of liberal reforms
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After abloshing Capital punishment and creating local governments that had representatives from all classe. Assasination attempts began against the czar and in 1881 the assasinators finally succeeded.
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After the death of the czar many of his liberal reforms were reserved, and the freedoms of the Russian people were greatly restricted.
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Rule of Czar the 3rd
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many industrialized capitalist countries in Europe invested money to develop Russia. new factories and roads were built.
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Now the russia was becoming industrialized which means they are experiancing alot of the same effects as many other countries did. People were becoming poor and working in factories that made them work horrible conditions.
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A group of Marxists decided to form the socialist democratic labour party but the Russian Czar was banned from the (SDLP). The SDLP were focuse into exile in other European countries, but they kept up their revolutionary spirit by working on an illegal newspaper called iskra.
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The events of bloody sunday inspired mass strikes across the country this caused Czar the second to agree to allow an assembly of the peoples represenatives. in october the St petersburg soviet council was formed. They gave the people of russia basic civil rights, sush as the freedoms of speech.
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After the revolution and forced abdiction of czar nicholas the 2nd, Russia was without a formal leader during the last years of the first world war. A temporary government was put into place for most of 1917. Whichw as led by Alexander Kerensky.
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Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the communist bolsheviks, who called for the end of Russian participation in the war.
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the time of Vladimir Lenin who was the first leader of acommunist country.
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Lenin believed that and if need be violence was an acceptable means to achive an ideal society. How ever many russians did not shaare Lenins views and in 1918 he was shot.
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After gaining popularity through propaganda Lenins supporters and the Bolshevik party had the strength and support to take on power. Leon Trotsky joined Lenin and together they were succesful in establishing a new russian government of communisim.
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As a result of the assasination attempt Lenin attempted to eliminate his rivals through a campain called the Red Terror. Negative changed
-During this Red Terror many people were tortured and executed. Positive changes
-Land was redistributed to the people
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Lenin gave the working class people alot of the power over their lives that they had not ever knowen. In 1924 Vladimir Iich lenin came to an abrupt end after he died of a stroke
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Trotsky being an ally of Lenin
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Stalin an untrusted enemy of Lenin -Well long story short Stalin gained power and exiled Trotsky which eventually led to the assasination of Trotsky in mexico -
The greation of the Gulag (prison camps) was a system to contain those who opposed his views. Some of Stalins policy -The use of secret police the (NKVD) to control people through terror and force.
- the collectivization of all farms, through which private farms were taken by force and used to create a collective farming system.
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Dictator ship of stalin
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Ukraine experiencedboth severe droughtas well as the effects of what some now refer to as a planned famine by Stalin and his plans for industrialization. When Stalin withheld all of the food he killed between 7 and 10 million people in order to remove resistance.
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Stalins rule came to an end in 1953, he was succeded by various communist leaders. Stalin died of a stroke the paralyzed his entire right side of his body
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This is the current president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev
