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riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd
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leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I
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An assassination attempt leaves Lenin seriously wounded
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Lenin suffers second stroke and retires from politics
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the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
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lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik move and head of the first government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
