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On a Sunday afternoon, a large group of over 200,000 unarmed workers, their families, and supporters along with Father Gapon, a Russian priest led a peaceful demonstration in St. Petersburg.
Demonstrators wanted to present a petition to the Czar regarding better working conditions, more wages, and freedom.
The unarmed demonstrators were shot by the Czar's troops.
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The First World War proved to be the last straw for the Czar’s government.
Millions of Russian troops were getting killed.
Soldiers were not well prepared with proper weapons, or supplies.
. Nicholas left the government in the hands of his wife, the Czarina, and the monk, Rasputin. -
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates. Provisional government is declared.
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Former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, children, and members of his entourage are murdered by the Bolsheviks.
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Bolshevik socialists, led by Lenin, overthrow Provisional government.
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In the following years after the two revolutions, the Bolsheviks or the ‘Reds’ defeat the Mensheviks or the ‘Whites’ in a civil war .
By 1923 all areas of Russia came under communist control and is renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). -
Stalin becomes Soviet leader
