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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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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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Trotsky set up the Red Army and began preparing to fight 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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