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  Lenin and other Marxist leaders were arrested
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  Nicolas II is crowned Czar of Russia
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  Happened when unarmed demonstrators led by fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard in 1905 and began Russian Revolution
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  A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War
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  Lenin returns from exile and arrives in Petrograd
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  Trotsky arrives in Russia after being released from prison by the British Government.
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  First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens
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  The Grenadier Guard Regiment returns from the front and joins the Kronstadt Anarchists
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  Bolshevicks take the winter palace and the council of people's commission Led by Lenin is in control of Russia
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  Soviet proclamations on land and peace.
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  Russian Revolution comes to an end
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  Decree is passed limiting wages of high paid officials
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  Led by Leon Trotsky and defeated the Bolsheviks enemy, the White Armies
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  Takes Russia out of WWI
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  Czar Nicholas I and his family are executed
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  White Armies attack the Bolsheviks
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  . These risings are suppressed but the New Economic Policy is proclaimed that gives the peasants the right to sell their grain surpluses
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  Suffers second stroke and retires politics
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  Stalin will become his successor