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Czar is crowned after his father and Czar Alexander III died
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two groups meet, one group supports Lenin and the other group supports other leaders.
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Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St Petersburg
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Strike sweeps Russia which ends when the Tsar promises a constitution
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the Russian revolution is a changing point in world history and modern days
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czar stops the revolution and called it a bloody Sunday
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the suppression of the St Petersburg Soviet the Moscow Soviet organises a disastrous insurrection that the government suppresses after five days
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the Duma, is dissolved when it produces an anti government majority even though elected on a narrow franchise.
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Rasputin called himself a holy man and a healer, and he helped heal Czar Nicholas' sick son. Still, Rasputin wasn't a good man, and many in Russia hated him, putting the people at odds with the Czar.
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A new wave of workers unrest ends with the outbreak of the First World War
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czar took control of the army the same time that the WW1 began
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they planned to kill him, it did take a lot of work to kill him but they did it
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people get upset with czar and began to protest and refuse to do work
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czar was going to let his brother take over, but his brother did not want to clean up the mess czar had left and people tried to make a temporary government
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Milyukov tells allies that war aims unchanged.
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Opposition to the Foreign Minister Milyukov boils over due to his refusal to renounce annexations
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Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government
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lenin comes out of exile and tries to come back and take over, but they chased him back in hiding
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Workers and soldiers in Petrograd demand the Soviet takes power. Sporadic fighting results and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front.
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he ends up taking control of russia and split political party
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results in victory for the left under Chernov. Likewise Menshevik Congress gives victory to Martov's Menshevik internationalists.
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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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the Bolsheviks are a minority meets for one day before being suppressed. Earlier that day a demonstration is fired on by Bolshevik units and several demonstrators are killed
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Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party.
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Lenin helped establish the United Soviet Socialists Republic, a communist country. He worked with Joseph Stalin.
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After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over his rule. He would rule for many years to come. The Russian revolution changed Russia and all of history, introducing communism into the modern world.
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he tried to take power from czar and then was exiled in Russia