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Emporer of Russia, an opponent of representative government, and supporter of Russian nationalism. He reversed the constitutional reforms that his father, Alexander II, had enacted to further the modernization and democratization of Russia.
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He is the last tsar of Russia under Romanov rule. His poor handling of Bloody Sunday and Russia's role in World War I led to his abdication and execution. Nicholas II was an uncompromising autocrat, and this stance helped provoke the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The significance was the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power. The Russo-Japanese War left the Russian Empire demoralized, added to Russians' growing anger at the failed policies of Czar Nicholas II.
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The Duma is a Russian assembly that was established from 1906 to 1917. The significance is that the chief legislative chamber passed legislation by majority vote.
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It was a massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The significance was that it was one of the key causes of the 1905 revolution.
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Russia entered World War, beginning with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, a Russian ally. Via St Petersburg, the Russian Empire sent an ultimatum to Vienna warning Austria-Hungary not to attack Serbia. War patriotism helped douse anti-government sentiment, which had been building steadily in months beforehand, peaking with a general strike in July 1914. The Russian people blamed the Czar for entering the war and getting so many of their young men killed.
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Rasputin collapsed but was able to run out into the courtyard, where Purishkevich shot him again. The conspirators then bound him and threw him through a hole in the ice into the Neva River, where he finally died by drowning. Rasputin symbolized what was was wrong with government so when he died it caused many people to become upset.
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Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne because he had a loss of support and weakening leadership. The significance was that it brought to an end the Romanov dynasty. The Provisional Government was designed to set up elections to the Assembly while maintaining essential government services, but its power was effectively limited by the Petrograd Soviet's growing authority. The significance was that it was used to maintain power until a new government can be appointed by a regular political process
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It was leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin who launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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It was a conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir I. Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. It suffocated the revolution, destroyed democracy, and cleared the way for the Stalinist dictatorship.
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In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he became the political leader of the Soviet Union. He was a political activist, conducting discreet activities for the Bolshevik Party for twelve years before the Russian Revolution.
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-union of soviet socialist republics.
Once the USSR got established, Russia became one of the most powerful states in the world. However once it fell, Russia's crime rates increased and there was an increase in corruption within Russia. -
Lenin died from a brain hemorrhage. This affected Russia because upon Lenin's death, Stalin was officially hailed as his successor as the leader of the ruling Communist Party and of the Soviet Union itself. Against Lenin's wishes, he was given a lavish funeral and his body was embalmed and put on display.
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He was deported from the Soviet Union to Turkey. He lost his power and Stalin came into power.