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The Battle was between Russia and Germany, it resulted in an almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army and a suicide from its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov. -
Rasputin was found dead with three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. His death was a planned attack. -
These were two Russian Revolutions, the first was in February and aimed to overthrow the imperial government, and the second was in October and had placed the Bolsheviks in power. -
The establishment of the provisional government had aimed to establish liberal program of rights such as freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the right of unions to organize and strike. -
Lenin had planned to return to Russia to take charge of the Bolsheviks but realized many passages into the country were blocked, he made a plan to go through Germany while Russia was at war with them. -
The Russian civil war started from the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, it had aimed to defeat and exodus the White movement, and much more. -
The reds had won the civil war due to ruthless tactics, propaganda to great effect, and geographical position. -
Revolutionaries led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin launched an almost bloodless seizure of power against the Duma's provisional government. -
The goal of Lenin's establishment of the Comintern was for the central policy of the Comintern under Lenin's leadership for communist parties to be established across the world to aid the international proletarian revolution. -
The goal for the treaty of Brest-Litovsk was to allow Finland, Georgia, and Ukraine to be separate states. give the Central Powers Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. and cede territory to Turkey. -
The Romanov family, consisting of 7 people, had been shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky. -
Lenin's new policy had aimed to take a step back from central planning and allow the economy to become more independent. -
Vladimir Lenin had been 53 years of age at his death, he had died due to a Hemorrhagic stroke. -
Stalin had announced the start of the first five-year plan for industrialization that aimed to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the USSR. -
The Great Purge had been in the Soviet Union, it had consisted of elimination of political opponents, and consolidation of power. It had been a large-scale repression of wealthy peasants. -
Trotsky fled to Mexico after many other country's, he originally fled after being outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and his allies and losing his positions.