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The Russo- Japanese War occured because of the rival imperial ambitions the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea.
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Revolution of 1905 was a massive wave of political and social unrest that spreaded through the vast areas of the Russian Empire, some were mostly directed at the government.
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World War 1 which was also known as "First World War" or the "Great War" was a global war that began in Europe.
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The February Revolution began on March 8, 1917 when demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd.
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Czar Nicholas ll abdicates and includes his son. The following day Nicholas brother Mikhali announced his refusal to accept the throne. Provisional government was established.
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Then, on November 6 and 7, 1917 leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’etat against the provisional government.
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Council of People's Commissars was a government institution formed shortly after the October revolution.
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The Allied intervention was a multi-national military expedition launched during the Russian Civil war in 1918
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The government signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to prevent Germany from invasions, Russia sacrificed a quarter of land in order for this treaty to become official.
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Russia leaves World War 1 because they signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk so the debating could end.
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The Tsar knows nothing about running an army and his wife knows anything about running a country.
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The Bolsheviks took Czar and his family members into custody than later on killed them at Yekaterinburg.
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Civil War in Russia- COmmunists fight againt people who were opposed to them.
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The counter revolutionaries began to recruit their own group which were known as the Whites.
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Trotsky set up the Red Army and began preparing them to go under combat with the Whites.
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The Communists win the chivil wars that was fought against the group that was known as the Whites.
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The Kronstadt rebellion was a major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921, during the later years of the Russian Civil War.
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The country was named the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in honor of the councils that helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolsheviks where then known as the Communist Party.
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Treaty of Rapallo allowed Russia to obtain industrial manufactoring technology from the Germans, and allowed the Geramns to train and receive weapons from the Russians.
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Lenin Dies and government power is debated by Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
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After Lenin's death a raging power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stlain ensued. During this power struggle two factions formed in the communist party; left wing led by Trotsky which wanted to spread the revolution across the world, the moderaters led by Stalin.
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Campaign of terror that was directed to anyone who threatened Staflin's power.
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Promptly after the NAzi invasion of Poland on September 1st the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east. This was outlined in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
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The Great Patriotic War is used in Russia and other former republics of the Soviet Union to describe June 22, 1941 through May 9, 1945.
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The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war ub the former Russian Empire immediately right after the Russian Revolution of 1917, as many factors were seeking the future power of Russia.
