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The last Czar is crowned ruler of Russia in the old Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow. -
The harsh factory work drove the population into an angry feud. -
The Marxist revolutionaries then split into two groups, the Mensheviks who wanted popular support of the revolution and the Bolsheviks who were willing to sacrafice everything for a change. -
The Japanese won the war, and the Russians lost. The war happened because the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire disagreed over who should get parts of Manchuria and Korea. -
Father Gapon led a march to deliver a petition to the Tsar. Thousands of workers took part in this peaceful protest. The workers were not trying to overthrow the Tsar. -
Russia entered World War I in the three days succeeding July 28, 1914 beginning with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, a Russian ally. -
Czar took the title Emperor and Autocrat of all Russia and imposed autocratic rule which is a government run by one man. -
Lenin returned to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
The March Revolution was one of two parts of revolutions in Russia in 1917 that ended Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
It was formed when the tsar's government collapsed after protests over food shortages and unemployment gathered momentum in the last week of February 1917. -
On Nov. 7, the Bolsheviks seized the lightly guarded Winter Palace and arrested the government officials who remained. -
Lenin suggested they rename themselves the communist party -
fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between the Red army who were communists, and the white army who opposed them. -
Czar is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents -
Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria) ending its participation in World War I -
Lenin made the NEP in 1922 as an economic system that would include a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control. -
After the revolution occurred, Lenin organized Russia into several self-governing republics and named it Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
Lenin suffered three bad strokes, and the last stroke occurred on January 21, 1924, and he was dead within hours. -
In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he became the dictator of the Soviet Union, by manipulating and terrorizing others in order to destroy his opponents.
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