Russian Revolution

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    Reign of Czar Alexander III

    • Oppressed the Jewish population
    • One man autocracy
    • Promoted nobles and oppressed peasants
    • Made it a legacy for people to hate the Czar
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    Reign of Czar Nicholas II

    • Kept many of the same policies as his father
    • Hated by the people for oppressing the lower class
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    Russo-Japanese War

    • Between Russia and Japan
    • Fought over the Manchurian area of China
    • Japan ended up winning the war
    • This loss greatly damaged the reputation of Czar Nicholas II

  • Bloody Sunday

    • 200,000 Russians marched onto Czar Nicholas II's palace
    • Russian troops shot at them and killed around 100 people and injured close to 3,000
    • This is one of the many events that made people despise Czar Nicholas II

  • Establishment of the Duma

    • This was a legislature made by Czar Nicholas II to appease the people
    • It didn't have any real power
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    Russia's Participation in World War One

    • They joined because of their alliance with Serbia

  • Death of Rasputin

    • Rasputin was the queen's right-hand man
    • He predicted that if he was killed by someone in the royal family, the whole family would be killed
    • He was killed by someone in the royal family

  • Abdication of Czar Nicholas II and establishment of the Provisional Government

    • Czar Nicholas II stepped down from the throne
    • The provisional government was very hated by the people
    • People wanted it to make real changes but it didn't have the power to

  • Rise of Lenin and Bolshevik Revolution

    • Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik party
    • The Bolsheviks were the main communist party
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    Civil War

    • The conservatives were trying to take back the country from the Bolsheviks
    • There were many foreign countries that took part in the war against the Bolsheviks
    • The Bolshevik Red Army ended up winning the war and taking control of the whole country

  • Establishment of the USSR

    • USSR stands for Union of Soviet Social Republics
    • It was a communist state
    • It was led by Lenin
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    Stalin's rise to power

    • He rose through the ranks of the Bolsheviks
    • He was a very corrupt politician
    • His name means "Iron fist" and that name fits his rule as a dictator
    • He took out any political opponents that he had

  • Lenin's Death

    • There was no leader of the USSR
    • Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky competed for the throne

  • Leon Trotsky's Exile

    • Leon Trotsky was the biggest threat to Stalin's throne
    • Stalin exiled him from the Soviet Union
    • He moved to Turkey where he was later assassinated