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Alexander III
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Abolishment of Serdom
released serfs from their serfdom. However, this improvement of the peasant condition was emphasized as gradual, leading to the establishment of many temporary measures and statuses to ensure the process of serfdom abolishment went smoothly -
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Nicholas II
He inherited the throne when his father, Alexander III, died in 1894. He believed in autocracy, he was eventually forced to create an elected legislature. Nicholas II’s handling of Bloody Sunday and World War I incensed his subjects and led to his abdication in 1917. Bolsheviks executed him. -
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Lenin
Lenin was founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state. -
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Transiberian
Network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. -
Division of Marxists into two groups
Bolshevism and Menshevism, the two main branches of Russian socialism from 1903 until the consolidation of the Bolshevik dictatorship under Lenin in the civil war of 1918–20 and secretly formed at a congress at Minsk in 1898, was based on the doctrines of Marxism.
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Bloody Sunday
In St Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. -
Russo-Japanese War
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WW I
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Murder of Rasputin
Today it is believed that Rasputin was invited to dinner at the home of the Russian nobleman Felix Yusupov, who then shot him; and that he was shot again by a second conspirator, Vladimir Purishkevich, before finally being dropped through a hole in the Neva river, where he finally died by drowning. His corpse was later discovered on the Neva's banks.
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NEP
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March (February) revolution
Was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.involved mass demonstrations and armed clashes with police and gendarmes, The immediate result of the revolution was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the end of the Romanov dynasty -
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Provisional Goverment
The intention of the provisional government was the organization of elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly and its convention -
October Revolution
Lenin and other revolutionaries returned to Russia after having been permitted by the German government to cross Germany. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would undermine the Russian war effort. Lenin galvanized the small and theretofore cautious Bolshevik party into action. source:http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/russian-revolution-the-october-revolution-1917.html -
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Russian Civil War
two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favoring monarchism, capitalism, and alternative forms of socialism. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaties signed by the Central Powers with the Ukrainian Republic and with Soviet Russia which concluded hostilities between those countries during World War I. Peace negotiations, which the Soviet government had requested on Nov. 8, 1917, began on December 22.
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Joseph Stalin
Under Stalin's rule, the concept of "Socialism in One Country" became a central tenet of Soviet society, contrary to Leon Trotsky's -
USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federationhe. New communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.
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Trotsky into exile
Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik revolution and early architect of the Soviet state, is deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia. He was expelled from a series of countries because of his radicalism.
Source:http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stalin-banishes-trotsky
