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Russian Revolution

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    Russian Revolution

    Includes build - up and after math
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    Reign of Czar Alexander III

    Oppressed the jewish population
    One man rule
    One religion
    One race
    *Made a long lasting effect of the people not liking the czar
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    Reign of Czar Nicholas II

    • Wanted absolute power, (autocracy)
    • Didn’t want a democracy or any democratic reforms
    • Bad leadership *made all of the citizens of russia unhappy with the czar *during reign = massacre
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    Russo - Japanese War

    It was a territorial dispute over the manchurian area both imperial powers saw it as theirs to take which caused the war. Japan won the war due to the advantage at sea. This war created civil unrest and the russian people were unhappy with the czar.
  • Establishment of the Duma

    Establishment of the Duma

    The Duma was a temporary government it also was an Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday

    200,00 Russians marched to the Czar's palace to demand better working/living conditions As they arrived, police begin shooting the protesters. At least 100 were killed, and 3,000 injured. The leaders of the protest were arrested.
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    Russia's participation in WWI

  • Death of Rasputin

    Death of Rasputin

    He was strongly religious and viewed as a holy man. Rasputin supposedly healed the Czar’s son who had hemophilia, and Rasputin seemed to have the ability to lessin his suffering. He was accused of religious heresy and rape. Finally, the members of nobility decided to try and kill him, by poisoning him, shooting him, and eventually drowning.
  • Abdication of Czar Nicholas

    The russian people hated him and he choose to step down from the throne
  • Rise of Lenin & Bolshevik Revolution

    He was the communist leader and he abused his power
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    Bolshevik Revolution

    Lenin launched a nearly bloodless attack against the Duma's provisional government.
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    Civil War

    The red army won the civil war because they were better organized and had the better territory
  • Stalin’s rise to power

    Stalin was officially welcomed as Lenin's successor as the leader of the ruling Communist Party and the Soviet Union itself after Lenin's death.
  • Establishment of USSR

    Establishment of USSR

    A 1922 treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus created the USSR
  • Lenin’s death

    Lenin’s death

    After his death Stalin and Trotsky competed for his throne
  • Leon Trotsky’s exile

    Leon Trotsky’s exile

    Trotsky died because Stalin saw him as a threat to him and he killed him