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Russo-Japanese War
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Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was when unarmed demonstrators were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they approached the city center and the Winter Palace. They were going to present a petion to Tsar Nicholas II. -
Revolution of 1905
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Creation of the Duma
The Duma was council assemblies created by the Czar of Russia. It was a form of Russian governmental institution that was formed during the reign of the last Tsar, Nicholas II. -
Civil War begins
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Russia enters WWI
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March Revolution begins
The March Revolution began when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd. One week later, centuries of czarist rule in Russia ended with the abdication of Nicholas II, and Russia took a dramatic step closer toward communist revolution. -
Nicholas II abdicates the throne
Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, was forced to abdicate the throne in 1917, after strikes and general revolts break out in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). The army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate. -
Kerensky heads the provisional government
The definition of provisional government is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a very large government. Provisional governments are generally unelected and tend to arise after civil or foreign wars. -
Lenin returns from exile in Germany
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Trotsky wins Civil War
The Red Army's Strategy was to defeat the white army one by one because the white army was so separated and they wouldn't be able to help each other. Trotsky was an effective leader during the civil war and he is the second most power in the Bolsheviks. -
Lenin takes power
On October 1917 the Bolsheviks took over the government in Russia and Lenin became the most powerful man in the country. All other political parties were forbidden. -
Russia pulls out of WWI (Brest-Litovsk)
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers. The treaty was forced on the Soviet government by the threat of further advances by German and Austrian forces. -
Assasination of Romanov family
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Stalin comes to power
Under Joseph Stalin's rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central idea of the Soviet society. He replaced the New Economic Policy with a highly centralised command economy. -
Russia becomes a totalitarian state
A totalitarian state is a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. Stalin used it to modernize Russia. -
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Great Purge