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it started when the archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria - Hungary was assassinated
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Russia entered and quickly suffered in heavy losses in major defeats to Germany along the Eastern front.
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soldiers had no rifles or ammunition.
In 1915 alone, Russian casualties reached 2 million -
By 1917 the tsar and most of hte russian people bonds were broken
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Revolution forces the czar to abdicate. A provisional government is formed
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Revolts in Petrograd forced the Tsar to abdicate and a provisional republic was aestablished.
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due to lack of food and fuel shortages on the home front brought monarchy to a collapse
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full name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
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A crowd of fellow exiles and activists recently released from the czar's prisons met him at the station
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Russians suffer more than 50,000 casualties in battle against German and Austro - Hungarian forces
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Lenin came out of exile and tried to take over the temporary government, but was chased back into hiding
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Lenin signed a treaty, taking russia out of WW1. Later that year he had Czar Nicholas and his family killed.
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A second revolution results in Bolshevik takeover of government
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks take control in Petrograd and overthrow the rpublic
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Squads of Red Guards - armed factory workers - joined mutinous sailors fro the Russian fleet in attacking the provisional government
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Bolsheviks government seeks peace with Germany
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Russia signs the treaty of Brest - Litovsk, losing a large amout of territory
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Lenin changed the name of his political party to The Communist Party.
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A civil war between the Reds and the Whites begins. the czar and his family are executed.
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they all intervene with Russia
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Communist government is victorious. Only sporadic fighting continues.
