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Alexander III came to the throne.
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Nicholas II came to the throne.
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Russian Marxists split into two groups: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
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Russians were attacked by Japanese at Port Arthus, Manchuria.
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Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg leads to growing civil unrest.
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First Duma met, issued by Nicholas II
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Nicholas II enters Russia into WW1
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Nicholas moved his headquarters to front lines. His wife, Alexander, begins to be influenced by Rasputin.
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Nobles murder Rasputin.
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City-wide strikes begin in Petrograd.
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Nicholas abdicates his throne
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power in the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Lenin withdraws Russia from WW1.
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The Rusiian Civil War.
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New Economic Policy (NEP) issued by Lenin.
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Russia is renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) by the Bolsheviks and Lenin.
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Stalin is general secretary of the Communist party.
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Stalin climbs to achieve government control.
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Bolsheviks "Communists" create a new constitution.
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Stalin placed many of his supporters in key positions.
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Lenin Dies.
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Stalin is in total control of Communist Party.
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Stalin outlines first of several Five-Year Plans for the economic development of the USSR.
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Government, lead by Stalin, begins to seize over 25 million privately owned farms and convert them into collective farms.
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Trotsky is forced into exile.
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A second Five-Year Plan issued by Stalin.
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Stalin launches Great Purge, his campaign of terror.