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-Led by Russian Army
-Held in Senate Square, St. Petersburg
-Protested Nicholas I's rise to the throne
-Occured in December ---> 'Decembrists' -
-"The Peasant Reform of 1861"
-Serfs no longer dependent on Russian Empire
-Given better/larger plots of land -
-Social groups discontent with Russian politics
-Disdain after Russo-Japanese War
-Riots, strikes, terrorism -
-Massacre of unarmed and peaceful peasants
-Gunned down by Imperial Guard
-Leading a petition to Nicholas II -
-Serbia under Muslim-Ottoman control
-Russia is allied with Serbia
-Attacked by Austria-Hungary -
-Poisoned multiple times
-Shot and stabbed
-Beaten
-Thrown into a frozen river
-Found the next day, died of drowning -
-Attempt to further modernize Russia
-Held in St. Petersburg
-Caused Nicholas II abdication, end of Romanovs, end of Russian Empire -
-Translates to disowning, renouncing
-Usually applies to rulers who are crowned
-Named Grand Duke Michael (brother) to throne -
-"October Revolution"
-Overthrew Russian Provisional Government
-Started the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) -
-Yekaterinburg, Russia
-7 family members, family Doctor, Tsarina's maid, footman, cook murdered
-All were canonized (declared to be saint-like) in 2000 -
-Peace treaty after WWI
-Took 6 months to finish
-Registered by the League of Nations
-Exactly 5 years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand -
-Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
-Many assumed Trotsky would take over after Lenin
-Stalin turned against Lenin and hid Lenin's lack of faith in him -
-Lenin dies of second stroke
-Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukranian, Belorussian approve Creation of USSR
-First Congress signed in December, 1922 -
-Removed from power
-Expelled from the Communist Party
-Deported from USSR
-Assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader
