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Marxist revolutionaries disagree over revolutionay tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
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They competed for control of Korea and Manchuria. Both nations signed agreements over territories but Russia broke the agreements. Japan retaliated by attacking the russians at Port Aruthur, Manchuria.
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200,000 workers and families approached the Czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg carrying a petition asking for better working conditions.
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They wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy similar to Britian.
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Nicholas ll made the fateful decision to drag Russia into World War 1. Russia wasn't prepared to handle the military and economic cost.
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Women textile workers in petrograd led a city wide strike, riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel.
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Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in petrograd calling themselves "Bolshevik Red Guards". They took over government office and arrested the leaders of the provisional government.
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Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest- Litousk. Russia surrondered a large part of its territory to germany and their allies.
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The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings.
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Lenin temporarity put aside his plans for a state controlled economy. He resorted to a small-scale version of capitalism called "New Economic Party"
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The country was named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). In honor of the councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution.
