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fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War -
he conspirators then bound him and threw him through a hole in the ice into the Neva River, where he finally died by drowning. -
overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power. -
established as a temporary government immediately after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917. -
He decided to return to Russia to take charge of the Bolsheviks but found that most passages into the country were blocked due to the ongoing conflict. -
revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government.here -
It started after the February Revolution of 1917 which overthrew the Tsar -
shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of ... -
The Comintern was founded at a Congress held in Moscow on 2–6 March 1919. -
By 1921, the Reds defeated their internal enemies and brought most of the newly independent states under their control, -
called for a limited amount of free-market capitalism to ensure a more efficient transition to communism -
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and co-founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma. -
Trotsky was outmaneuvered by Joseph Stalin and his allies and lost his positions: he was expelled from the Politburo in 1926 and from the party in 1927, -
The First Five-Year Plan called for the collectivization of agriculture and the expansion of heavy industry, like fuel extraction, energy generation, and steel -
Between 1936 and 1938, three very large Moscow trials of former senior Communist Party leaders were held, in which they were accused of conspiring with fascist and capitalist powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders,