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  [Picture Credit](hthttp://worldbookonline.com/advanced/extmedia?id=ar502140&st=serfs&em=pc332280tp://)Even though the serfs were freed, they recieved little land and were wealthy.
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  [Picture Credit](hhttp://worldbookonline.com/advanced/extmedia?id=ar748536&st=1905+revolution&em=pc339266ttp://)In the early 1900's, Russia's economy slowed. They lost a war with Japan and there social unrest grew.
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  [Picture Credit](htthttp://worldbookonline.com/advanced/extmedia?id=ar319460&st=democratic+labor+party+of+russia&em=pc305456p://)The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into two in 1903.
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  Bloody Sunday shootings fueled even greater demonstrations.
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  The army crushed an uprising in Moscow and the police arrested the members of the St. Petersburg Soviet along with Leon Trotsky.
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  Germany overwhelmed a Russian army that was poorly trained and badly led. As a result Russia's economy strained and shortages of food and fuel came. Untrained soliders became rebellious.
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  A group of Russian nobles loyal to the czar murdered Rasputin.
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  Leaders of several workers groups, left leaning members of the Duma.
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  Strikes and riots over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd.
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  Lenin returned to Petrograd in April ,1917.
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  Soliders began another uprising in Petrograd.
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  General Lavr Kornilov made a siez.
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  Bolsheviks killed Nicholas and his family.