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Decemberist Revolt
- Revolt against Tsar Nicholas
- As a result of this revolt, Nicholas I created a variety of new laws to prevent the spread of the liberal movement in Russia.
- Nicholas was more conservative
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Emancipation of the Serfs
- emancipated because of the Crimean War
- emancipated by Alexander II
- the Editorial Commision was formed to deal with things pertaining to the serfs
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Bloody Sunday
- A man named George Gapon created a petition to bring to Tsar Nicholas II about working conditions
- Led a group of workers to the winter palace to show Nicholas II the petition but was gunned down by the police
- Started the 1905 Revolution
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Revolution of 1905
- Started after Bloody Sunday
- Strikes took place, Universities closed, civil liberties were diminished
- Union of Unions formed by doctors, lawyers etc
- Lots of strikes and people walking out on their jobs
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Russia enters WWI
- Thought they would have great success in WWI
- The serfs were made to fight in the army
- The rich wanted to benefit from the war, that is why Russia originally joined
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Rasputin Murdered
- Thought to be sleeping with the Tsarina
- Claimed to have powers of healing and such
- Very hard to kill
- Was poisoned, stabbed, shot, beaten to death, thrown in a river
- Died of drowning
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March Revolution
- Destroyed the Tsarist Autocracy
- Focused around St. Petersburg
- Nicholas II abdicated in the end
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Tsar Nicholas II Abdicates
- a result of the March Revolution
- named his brother Grand Duke Michael as the next leader of Russia
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Bolshevik Revolution
- People were annoyed after WWI
- Bolshevik Party's goal was to overthrow the Provisional Government and set up a government for the proletariat
- Lenin joined the Bolshevik's in 1917
- Led a charge on the Winter Palace and overthrew the government
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Murder of the Romanovs
- Romanov family was murdered at Ekateringburg
- Killed by the Bolsheviks
- Lenin found Nicholas to still be a threat
- Conspiracies about the death or survival of two of the children started to spread
- Many theories about what actually happend that night and how they all died
- Buried in a mass grave
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Treaty of Versailles
- peace settlement after WWI
- signed at the Versailles Palace near Paris
- final signing ceremony in the Hall of Mirrors
- signed by the big three
- Destroyed Germany
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Lenin Dies
- Died from several strokes
- Stalin took over the Bolshevik party after his death
- Cults formed to honor Lenin and continue his work
- Died in his Fifties
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Stalin Takes Power
- People thought Trotsky would have taken power instead of Stalin
- Made general secretary of the Communist Party
- Played different political sides against each other in order to basically trick people to get him into power
- Some liked him, many people didn't
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USSR formed
- formed due to a weak monarchy and economic crisis
- Created by Stalin and the Bolsheviks
- Communist
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Death of Trotsky
- Died in Mexico City
- Killed by Franck Johnson
- Pickaxe to the head is what killed him
- Supposed last words were, "I think Stalin has finished the job he started."
