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  http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/united-states-of-czars/ The Serfs were freed by Czar in 1861.
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  Russia experienced great changes in the latter half of the 1800's and in the early 1900's.
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  In the early 1900's Russia's economy slowed down.
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  Petrograd soviet that had been first to set up in 1905.
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  On January 22,1905, thousands of men, women, and children peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital.
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  Germany declared war on Russia in August 1914.
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  http://all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Rasputin-Hand-Over-Belly.jpg In December 1916, a group of Russian nobles loyal to the Czar murdered Rasputin.
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  On March 15, 1917, the government forced Czar Nicholas to abicate.