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Rasputin was a mystical healer in the court of Russia. It took a lot of work to kill him.
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The people were unhappy with the Czar Nichola's rule of the country. They began protesting and were on strikes, refusing to go to worl. The czar had all of the power and people had no control over their lives.
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Czar Nicholas abdicates and leaves the throne to his brother. His brother did not accept unless it is offered to him by a constituent assembly elected by the people. The Czar leaves a provitional goverment and leaves to Serbia.
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Vladimir Lenin tried to come back to Russia in July, but was chased back. In Octuber, he came back from his exile to rule. He was the leader of the Russian Social-Democrat Labor political party.
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The war is between the Reds (bolsheviks) and the Whites (counterrevolutionaries). Here Trotsky paticipates as a commissat of War for the Reds.
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This treaty takes Russia out of WWI
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Lenin works with Joseph Stalin to establish a comunist country.
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5 Million people die of starvation and disease.
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Vladimir Lenin died and Stalin took over. He would continue to rule for many years.
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Stalin sets in motion his first 5-Year plan. Stalin wanted to make Russia a more Industrialize country.
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A mass closure of churches begin.
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Six to Eight million people died in this famine. This famine was forced by Stalin.
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The second world war begins.
