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more than 140,000 russian workers strike in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of bloody sun
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Provisional government issues a set of liberal principles in which includes improvements to civil rights, and freedoms.
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Czav Nicholas II and his family are detained under house arrest.
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Czav Nicholas II abdicates and includes his son
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Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov informs the allies by telegram that Russia intends to remain in the war until its completion.
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Protests in petrograd against the provisioned government
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Kornilov replaces Brusilov as commander-in-cheif of the Russian army.
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Bolshevik central committee declares that "an armed uprising is inevitable."
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Petrograd soviet and bolsheviks pass means by which this should be achieved.
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Lenin announces that the Bolsheviks have seized power and calls for preparations for a soviet government.
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Bolshevik red gaurds win control of moscow after a week of bitter fighting
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Lenin decrees the formation of the CHEKA, a small agency led by Dzerzhinsky and tasked with combating counter-revolutionary activity.
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The new Bolshevik government converts Russia from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
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Bolshevik party changes its name to the communist party.
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Czar nicholas II and his family are executed by Bolsheviks general secretary Lenin Stalin
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Stalin Lenin is appointed general secretary
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establishment of the union soviet socialist revolution
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Kerensky's orders, Russian forces begin massive military offensive against the Austro-Hungarians in Galicia.