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Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lerin becomes the leader.
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Between 1904 and 1917, Russia faced a series of crises. These events showed the czar's weakness and paved the way for revolution. Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at port Arthur.
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200,000 workers and their families went to czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg because they wanted better working conditions and more personal freedom.
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New constitution provided for a bicameral Russian parliament. This new constitution was a revision of the ealier fundamental laws that were put together in 1832.
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General Kaiser Wilhelm II attacks St. Petersburg. Germany declared war on Russia, causing brief sense of patriotic union amongst the Russian nation and a downturn in striking. Russia suffers heavy defeats and a large shortage of supplies, including food and munitions.
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Strike of textile workers who were women. Five days later, riots for shortages of bread and fuel took place, Workers from the city’s largest factory demanded a 50% wage increase so that they could buy food. The management refused so the workers went on strike.
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Armed factory workers stormed into the Winter Palace in Petrograd. They called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guard. They took over government offices and arrested the leaders of the provisional government.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War I. Russia surrendered a large part of their territory their allies to Germany.
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The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism, and alternative forms of socialism.
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An unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in the later years of the Russian Civil War. Lenin restored to a new economic policy.
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Russia was named the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR) in honor of the councils that helped lauch the Bolshevik Revolution.
