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In 1905, at the time the Russian monarch and people were experiencing growing tensions after four of the workers from the iron factory were discharged. Workers throughout the city went on strike. A petition was signed for better working areas which got many signatures. then the people of St Petersburg marched to the place to deliver the petition. -
While Rasputin was a mystic and healer, he had a bad reputation of being a womanizer and drunk. He discredited the Tsar government which was one of the causes of the overthrow of the government. -
march 8-16 was when the revolution started. but it was called the February Revolution. -
Tsar Nichalas II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia. He was overturned and arrested by the Bolsheviks and later murdered by them. -
Vladimir Lenin has been in exile and has now returned to Russia to get his power back. -
The Bolsheviks carried out the Great October Socialist Revolution. Bolshevik Red Guards took over key areas of Russia - railways, government buildings and telegraph offices. -
He led the Russian Provisional Goverment for 3 months but after the October Revolution he fled Russia and live his life in exile and Lenin seized power. -
This was a 4 year conflict between the Boshelvik Red Army which wanted a communist state and the White Army, a group of anti-Bolshevik forces made up of monarchs and priests and liberals. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a treaty between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria) which resulted in Russia leaving the war (WWI). Russia ended up losing some land and countries. -
Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the Communist party. He gained even greater control over the party after Lenin's death in 1924.