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Rasputin assassinated for political reasons that were unsure.
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Lenin imposes Communist control.
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When some thirty to forty socialist intellectuals and workers gathered in the Tauride Palace on the afternoon of February 27, 1917 to attempt to provide leadership to the revolution already happening in the streets of the capital. Many meetings formed mainly of military people.
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March Revolution was actually the February Revolution (Russia used the Julian calendar then). It was caused by Russia's terrible state in the war against Germany,
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At the end of the Russian Revolution Nicholas II abdictates. Nicholas drew up a new manifesto naming his brother the Czar. His brother was Grand Duke Michael.
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Also known as Red October. It followed the revolution earlier that year in February. The soviets took over the government on Oct. 24 1917
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Multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces.
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Germans sent Lenin back to Russia hoping that he would foment further revolutionary activity in Russia so that Russia would withdraw from fighting Germany in World War I
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The telegram giving the order to execute the russian royalty was signed by Yakov Sverdlov. Around midnight, Yakov Yurovsky, the commandant of The House of Special Purpose,
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918. The German were reminded of the harshness of Brest-Litovsk when they complained about the severity of the Treaty of Versailles signed in June 1919.
