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The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany. The outcome of this battle was Germany victory over the Russians. -
Rasputin was a very holy man who was thought to have influenced the Romanov Family, who was the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia. Rasputin got his sur-name because of his sexual promiscuity and heavy drinking. -
The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on severe terms. The treaty took away territory that included a quarter of the population and the industry of Russian. -
The cause of the March Revolution was Russia's disastrous involvement in World War I. This Revolution lasted about 8 days. -
The Provisional Government was by the Provisional Committee in cooperation of the Petrograd Soviet. The government was led first by Prince Georgy Lvov and then by Alexander Kerensky. -
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party. After his exile ended in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. -
The War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government. This Civil War was 3 years long. -
Members of the Bolshevik political party seized power in the capital of Russia, Petrograd. This conflict led to a Bolshevik victory in the Russian civil war. The October Revolution was actually the second Russian revolution of 1917 -
The Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries -
The central policy of the Comintern under Lenin's leadership was that communist parties should be established across the world to aid the international proletarian revolution. -
This represented a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism. The 10th Party Congress in March 1921 introduced the measures of the New Economic Policy. -
The Bolsheviks were extremely fortunate in the quality of their leadership, particularly in Lenin and Trotsky. Throughout the Civil War, Lenin provided the energy and drive needed to inspire success, while Trotsky provided the organization and charisma. -
Lenin died from Hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 54. -
The first five-year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a list of economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of socialism in one country. His proposals were rejected by the Central Committee majority which was controlled by the troika and derided by Stalin at the time. -
Trotsky was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and his allies and lost his positions: he was expelled from the Politburo in 1926 and from the party in 1927, internally exiled to Alma Ata in 1928, and deported in 1929. -
The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenge from past and potential opposition groups.