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Ready to Risk Russia
Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tatics. The more radical Bolshevicks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the new leader. -
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Russian Revolution
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Battle of Port Arthur
Russia faces a series of cises and becomes weaker. The Czar starts to show his weakness in his milatary and political tatics. The Russo-Japanese War was going on at the time and the 2 nations signed agreements over the territories, but russia broke Japan. Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria. -
Holy Sunday turns Bloody
About 200,000 Russian workers and their families marched to the Czar's winter palace carrying a petition. The petition was for better working conditions. More than 1,000 were wounded and hundreds were killed. -
Changing the Power of Russia
The first Duma met in May, 1906. Leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarch, like Britan. But the Czar was hesitant to share his power, so he dissolved the Duma after 10 weeks. -
Downfall of Russia
Nicholas ll dragged Russia into WWl. Russia was unprepared to handle military and economic costs. Russians also had weak generals and ailing troops. Less than a year passed and 4 million Russians were killed, wonded, or taken as prisoners. -
¨Down with the War!¨
Women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. The were shouting ¨Down with the autocracy!¨ and ¨Down with the war!¨. Soldiers obeyed the orders to kill the rioters, but later sided with the workers. -
Storming the Palace
Armed factory workers stormed into the winter palace in Petrograd. They called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards. They took over government offices and arrested leaders of the provisional government. -
Civil War Rage's On
The civil war raged on in Russia during this time. Several Western nations sent military aid and forces to help the White army. Howevery, sending troops did not further Russia's progress. -
Changing the Economic Policy
Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy and instead resorted to small scale version of Capitalism. He called it The New Economic Policy (NEP). The changes in the policy allowed for peasants to sell their supply of crops instaed of turning them to the government. The policy also allowed the government to keep control of the major industries and means of communication, but it allowed small factories, shops, and farms to be privatly owned. -
Changing Power/ Becoming the Soviet Union
Alot of events happened in 1922. Lenin suffered a stroke, but he survived, and the incident set in motion competition for heading up the Communist Party. Joseph Stalin was one of the two notable men to take over. Stalin was cold, hard, and impersonal.
This was also when the country was named the Soviet Union.
