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The plan to kill Rasputin seemed simple, but it took a lot of work to finally kill him.
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The people were unhappy with Czar Nicholas' rule of the country. They began protests and strikes, refusing to do their work.
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Nicholas tried to give up his throne and let his brother take over, but his brother refused. Other Russian aristocrats tried to make a temporary government.
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Lenin came out of exile and tried to take over the temporary government, but he was chased back into hiding.
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Lenin still led the split political party of the Russian Social-Democrat Labor Party, and his party soon moved in and took control of Russia.
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Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party.
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Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
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Lenin signed a treaty, taking Russia out of WWI. Later that year he had Czar Nicholas and his family killed.
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Mensheviks legalised and allowed to publish Vsegda Vpered in Moscow. Era of relative freedom begins in Bolshevik controlled Russia
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White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious.
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The Cheka closes down Vsegda Vpered. This marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks.
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Poland invades Russia.
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Russian civil war ends
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Lenin helped establish the United Soviet Socialists Republic, a communist country. He worked with Joseph Stalin.
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Stalin is appointed General Secretary
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Lenin suffers first stroke
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Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) established