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The Czar freed the serfs even though they got very little land and recieved heavily in debt.
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Maxist formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
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Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks
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Thousands of men, women, and children peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital. Their intention was to deliver a petition asking for better working conditions and a democratically elected assembly. The czar's soldiers fired on the demonstrators, killing or wounding hundreds of them.
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Army crushed an uprising in Moscow and police arrested workers of St. Petersburg Soviet including Leon Trotsky
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Russian nobles loyal to the Czar murdered Rasputin
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Strikes and riots for food and coal break out