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The serfs were freed in 1861. However, they had little land and were in debt for most or all of their lives
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the country waged an unsuccessful war with Japan, and social unrest grew.
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thousands of men, women, and children peacefully marched to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the. Their intention was to deliver a speach asking for better working conditions and a democratically elected assembly. The czar's soldiers fired on the demonstrators, killing or wounding hundreds of them.
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they were successful when Russian military forces were hard pressed by the Germans.
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Nov. 7, 1917 a Bolshevik-led army of workers, soldiers, and sailors took control of key positions in Petrograd.
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Czar Nicholas steps down from the throne. Nicholas and his family were later taken into custody. than him and his family were murrderd in Yekaterinburg in 1918
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In 1922, the Russian Communist government formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union.