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Russian nobles killed Rasputin. They tried poisoning him, shooting him, and beating him, but he didn't die until he fell in the river and drowned.
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Military and political leaders advise Czar Nicholas II to step down. He does and a temporary government is formed.
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Lenin comes back to Russia. Germany helped him because they hoped that Lenin coming back would weaken Russia.
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There are protests in Petrograd against the temporary government. Lenin is forced into hiding.
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There are more than 50,000 Russian casualties in battle against Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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Peasants get their land taken away.
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A second revolution happens and the Bolsheviks take over the government
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Bolshevik government seeks peace with Germany.
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Russia changes it's calender to the Gregorian one, so they're the same as the rest of Europe, so the date is now the 14th.
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The Bolshevik party changes their name to the Communist party.
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Lenin signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and loses a bunch of land.
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The Reds and Whites start a civil war and the czar and his family are executed.
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Lenin gets serious injuries from assassination attempts.
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British, American, Japanese, and other foreign forces intervene in Russia.
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The Bolsheviks kill more royal people after the Romanovs.
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The Communist government wins and there is hardly any more fighting.
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Doctors remove a bullet from Lenin's neck, stil there from the 1918 assassination attempt.
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Stalin is the General Secretary.
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The U..S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) is established.
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Lenin died and his body was preserved and placed in Red Square for more than 65 years.
