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- Supported Anti-Semitism
- Wanted everyone to have one culture, one rule
- Promoted nobility over working class
- Ruled with Autocracy and hated all reforms
- Created general hatred toward the government
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- Ruled with Autocracy(absolute rule), discouraged public government participation
- Tried to make Russian industries stronger by raising taxes and getting foreign countries to invest
- Was oblivious to criticism and did not listen to advice
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- Russia and Japan were competing for Korea and Manchuria
- The 2 countries signed a treaty, but Russia violated it. In retaliation, Japan attacked Russian troops in Port Arthur, Manchuria.
- News of Russian losses sparked a revolt back in Russia
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- 200,000 people approached the palace Czar's Palace, demanding changes to increase their quality of life with a petition
- The people came in peace and were dressed nicely
- Soldiers fired upon the Citizens, 1,000 were killed, many were wounded
- Made people around the country rise up against the Czarist government, going on strikes and causing disorder
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- Created from Bloody Sunday
- Was an elected legislature that dissolved quickly due to Czar Nicholas II being hesitant with sharing his power
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- Russia was not able to support its army economically
- The army had weak generals and were poorly equipped
- Prices inflated making the working class beg for WW1 to end
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- Rasputin gained lots of power while Czar Nicholas went to the front line, which made many fear his power in the government
- Nobles decided to kill him, and less than 1 1/2 years later, the Czar's entire family and himself were assassinated by revolutionaries
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- The temporary provisional government is created by leaders of the Duma, and led by alexander Kerensky
- It contained moderates who wanted a constitutional monarchy
- People's demands to the Provisional Government were not met, making them even less content with the way they were being ruled
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- The Germans arrange Lenin's return to Russia, predicting that he would cause unrest and hurt Russian war efforts
- Lenin and the Bolsheviks take over soviets in many major cities, gaining support
- Red guards storm the Petrograd winter palace, and arrest leaders of the provisional government
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A war between supporters of the revolution and opponents
Red Army wins, and Russia is now under communist control.
Russia is now in ruins, famine and death plagues the country -
- leaders of the Bolsheviks were scared that nationalism would lessen unity and party loyalty
- Lenin then organizes Russia into self-governing republics under a central government
- The Bolsheviks change their party name to the Communist party
- They created a constitution based on socialist and democratic principles, but in reality, the party held all the power
- The U.S.S.R was led by Joseph Stalin and the communist party after Lenin died
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- Stalin moved his supporters to powerful political positions
- Stalin gains total control of the Communist party
- He exiles Leon Trotsky and becomes dictator
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- This created competition on who would rule next, between Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky
- Lenin stated that Stalin was a dangerous man, and that he had lots of power that he didn't trust him with
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This gave Joseph Stalin a clear path to becoming the next ruler of the Communist leader. Stalin later makes himself the dictator.