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No type of representative political institutions
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Committed to Class Struggle and Revolution
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Vast majority of workers concentrated in St. Petersburg and Moscow
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Chaos and Disintegration of the Russian Army
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Alexandra and Rasputin throw the government into chaos
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Complete mismanagement of the wartime economy
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was a revolution focused around Petrograd
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gave up his power
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Nicholas was personally a very weak man; he became increasingly remote as a ruler
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Even more blindly committed to autocracy than her husband
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Following the March Revolution, in November 1917 Russia got the world's first communist government. Lead by Lenin, communists
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officially renamed the Communist Party in March 1918
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Signed peace treaty with Germany in March 1918
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Political opponents = Royalists, Liberal Democrats, Moderate
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The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and after 1922
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist
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General Secretary of the Communist Party
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leader of the Red Army during the Civil War
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Ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 – 1953
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Once he gained control of the government, he exiled Trotsky to Siberia in 1929
