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Russia Enters the First World War
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Russian Revolution
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Russia loses 2 million men in war. Calling for a new government towards the Duma instead of the tsar. Tsar Nicholas ends the Duma and heads out to the front leaving Rasputin and Alexandra leading a strong influence on the government.
Russia loses 2 million men in war. Calling for a new government towards the Duma instead of the tsar. Tsar Nicholas ends the Duma and heads out to the front leaving Rasputin and Alexandra leading a strong influence on the government. -
Bread riots in St. Petersburg.
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The Duma began to declare a the provisional government.
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Tsar Nicholas ronounces his throne without any type of protest.
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Lenin returns from his exile and denounces (stating in wrong) of the newly appointed provisional government.
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The provisional governemtn is reorganized, the war continues. The St. Petersburg Soviet declares the Army Order No. 1 (grants voting throughout the military power)
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Agricultural riots, peasants begin to seize land. Peasant soldier leave the army to participate in the riot upheavals.
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The Bolsheviks gain the majority vote in the St. Petersburg Soviet. ( Council)
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The Bolsheviks gain power again and Lenin heads the new "provionsal workers" and "peasants governments".
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Lenin accepts the peasant seizures of land and the worker's control of the factories; all Russian armies are now nationalized
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Lenin goes on the permanently disband the Constituent Assembly.
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Treay of Brest-Litovsk (cauing Russia to lose 1/3 of the population. Trotsky begins to rebuild the Russian army into a stronger stand. Government moves the from St. Petersburg onto Moscow.
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Civil War into Russia
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The Whie armies are on the offensive but are divided politically and recieve very little benefits from the Allies.
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Lenin and Red Army are the victors soon taking Belorussia and the Ukraine.