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Tsar Nicholas II rules over the Russiian Empire with absolute power
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In 1913, Tsar Nicholas II celebrated the tercentenary of Romanov rule in Russia.
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Fortunately for the Russians, they did better in 1916. The supply of rifles and artillery shells to the Eastern Front was vastly improved, and in the Brusilov Offensive of June 1916, Russia achieved significant victories over the Austrians - capturing Galicia and the Bukovina - and she was also more than holding her own in Transcaucasia, against Turkey
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On March 11, the troops of the Petrograd army garrison were called out to quell the uprising.
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Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.
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Lenin "Letters from Afar," are published
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After taking power, the Bolsheviks promised to deliver 'Peace, Bread and Land' to the beleaguered people of Russia. With regard to the first of these, a 'Decree on Peace' (26 October 1917) was dashed off by Lenin, calling upon all belligerents to end the slaughter of World War One
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Many anti-war radicals, along with the Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, were ferried home from exile in Switzerland in April 1917, courtesy of the German General Staff (which had spent roughly 30 million marks trying to foment disorder in Russia by the end of 1917).
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The All-Russian Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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was an attempted military coup d'état by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General Lavr Kornilov, in August 1917 against the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky.
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The collapse of Kornilov's attempted overthrow thus set the stage for the Bolsheviks to plan and carry out their successful seizure of power in November, 1917. This was a planned seizure of power, the second phase of the revolution, which forced Kerensky to flee into exile
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The Bolsheviks were forced to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918
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Bolshevik Party renamed Communist Party in March of 1918
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the Germans were at Odessa
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Lenin established the Union of Soviet Socialists Republicas under control of the Communist Party
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Stalin became the sole ruler of the USSR and created a totalitarian state
