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Russia is 4th ranked producer of steel, and the people do not like working conditions and low wages
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200,000 workers marched to the winter's palace with a petition to propose more freedom, but were shot by soldiers. This led to more strikes, protests, and violence round russia
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This war was one of many causes of the Revolution in Russia
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Nicholas II decided to put Russia into the Great War, but with their agonizing defeats, it revealed the weakness of czarist rule
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Rasputin was a mysterious Holy Man who helped the czar's son with his hemophilia. Alexandra liked him but nobles and politicians did not trust him. He was later murdered by nobles.
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Building the railway started in 1891 and ended in 1916. It connected European Russia with western Russia.
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Workers swarmed the streets of Petrograd shouting "Down with autocracy" and "down With the war". Soldiers who were ordered to shoot sided with the rioters.
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He abdicated the throne and was later executed with his family, which was the end of the Romanov Dynasty.
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Lenin and the bolsheviks return to Russia and go straight to Petrograd
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Bolsheviks storm the winter palace and overthrew the provisional government.
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Lenin has Russia sign the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany.
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The enemy of the Bolshevks, white army, fought the Red Army, the Bolsheviks. The Bosheviks man=intained power.
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He put aside his plan for state controlled economy and formed a version of capitilasm called NEP.
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Bolsheviks change their name to Communist Party. The constitution was based on socialist and democratic principles.
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Stalin was in full control of the Communist Party after Lenin's death, and turned Russia into a Totalitarism Regime.
