Russian Revolution

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    Russian Revolution

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    Reign of Czar Alexander III

    Ruler of Russia before the Russian revolution and WWI
    A lot of people were killed during his rule and the people did not like him. Also because of the way he ruled his son Nicholas II ruled horribly.
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    Reign of Czar Nicholas II

    Leader of Russia during WWI and blamed for all of Russia's problems
    People blamed him for everything wrong in Russia and wanted communism so they decided to have a civil war
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    Russo- Japanese War

    Russia fights Japan for land
    Russia lost the fight and they were really embarrassed and blamed csar Nicholas.
  • Establishment of the Duma

    Duma was the legislative body that csar Nicholas put in place to give the people power so they would not get mad
    Csar Nicholas did not give any power to the Duma and it was ineffective.
  • Bloody Sunday

    On a Sunday 200,000 people marched to demand better working relief from their working
    When they arrived at the palace they were shot and 100 people were killed and around 3,000 people were wounded. It made the people want to revolt against the csar even though he was not there.
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    Russia's participation in WWI

    They only prepared for 6 months and they were still industrializing
    This made horrible working conditions and made people hate the csar for making them stay in the war
  • Death of Rasputin

    People loved Rasputin and they wanted him to have power
    The nobles and the people in power were afraid of him having power so they had him killed
  • Abdication of Czar Nicholas II/est. of Provisional government

    csar Nicholas steps down and they put a provisional government
    The people did not want csar Nicholas but they hated the new government and people wanted to overthrow that.
  • Bolsheviks overthrow Prov. Govt

    People grew unhappy with the new government
    They overthrow the government into a communist party
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    Rise of Lenin & Bolshevik Revolution

    Lenin read about marxism and liked the ideas and wanted it in Russia no matter what
    people loved his ideas and followed him leading to over 5 million people dying
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    Civil War

    the war between the red and white army
    the Russian government lost and were overthrew
  • establishment of USSR

    The soviet union was made after the civil war
    it was lead by Lenin
  • Lenin's dealth

    Lenin died leaving a void of power for 2 people to fight over
    Lenin gave the power to Trotsky
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    Stalin's rise to power

    Stalin got jealous of Trotsky and took his power
    He lead as a dictator
  • Leon Trotsky's exile

    Leon Trotsky got exiled because Stalin was afraid of him
    Stalin then had him killed 20 or so years later