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  Nicholas ll became czar and was the last ruler from the Romanov family.
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  Czar Nicholas ll gave up his power on this date and ended the 300-year Romanov dynasty in Russia
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  Bolsheviks staged a coup d’etat in St. Petersburg, overthrew the provisional government, and members of the provisional government fled or were arrested
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  Bolshevik Party officially renamed the Communist Party because they wanted to spread the communist revolution around the world.
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  Russian signed a peace treaty with Germany and lost much of their western territory and a third of their population.
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  Communist vs. their political opponents and the communist were known as 'the reds' while their opponents were referred to as 'the whites'.
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  'The Whites' surrendered in 1921 because they were outnumbered, disorganized, and poorly equipped.
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  Russia becomes USSR and a new constitution is written. This makes russia a socialist state and was now supposed to be ran by the workers.
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  Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died at age 53 after suffering a series of strokes. Explore nine surprising facts about his tumultuous life, in which he catalyzed revolution, civil war, political crackdowns and radical redistributions of land and wealth.
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  He ruled for 3 years and had complete rule of Russia
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  Ability to remove and appoint government officials
 Once he gained control of the government, he exiled Trotsky to Siberia in 1929
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  He ruled the soviet union from 1929-1953 and was responsible for the next major extension of communist control.
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  The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union
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  A defeat for russia in the war led to their political instability.