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After his father, Czar Alexander III, died, Nicholas II became Czar over all of Russia.
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Lenin's brother had been killed a few years before for trying to kill Czar Nicholas' father. Lenin wanted to take over power from Nicholas, and he was arrested and exiled from Russia.
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At the meeting the people were split into two groups. Some supported Lenin, and others supported a different leader.
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A revolution broke out in St. Petersburg, but Czar Nicholas quickly put an end to it. The day was called Bloody Sunday.
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World War I began and the following year, Czar Nicholas took command of the Russian Army.
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People protesting for bread in the streets of the Russian capitol, Petrograd. 90,000 men and women were on strike and refused to leave the streets.
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The Provisional Government was established, and Russia was left in their powers after csar quit.
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Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.
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Lenin signed a treaty, taking Russia out of WWI. Later that year he had Czar Nicholas and his family killed.
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Lenin's Proclamation (October 25th on old Russian calender
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The new government,Council of People's Commissars, withdrew Russia fromt he war with Germany.
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The government signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to prevent German invasion. Russia sacrificed a quarter of land under this treaty.
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The Bolsheviks took Czar and his family into custody, and later killed them at Yekaterinburg.
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The counterrevolutionaries began to organize their own group called The Whites.
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The Reds and The Whites fought a bloody and violent civil war for the next three years.
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The Communists win the civil war fought against the whites
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Lenin changed the name of his political party to the Communist Party.
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A treaty was signed between the central powers (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria) and the Soviet government. Under the terms of the agreement, Russia lost Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, most of Byelorussia, and Russian Poland. The treaty was annulled under the terms of the German armistice.
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Lenin helped establish the United Soviet Socialists Republic, a communist country. He worked with Joseph Stalin.
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After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin took over his rule. He would rule for many years to come. The Russian revolution changed Russia and all of history, introducing communism into the modern world. However, communism didn't catch on as Lenin and Stalin had hoped. Instead, demo
