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rural slave's were freed in 1861
they received heavuly in dept in 1898. the marxist's formed the russian social democratic labor party in 1903 it solit into two groups. -
on jan. 22, 1905 russia economy slowed, the country waged an unsuccessful war with japan abd cocial unrest grew.
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germany declared war russia in august 1914 1914 russia changed the germany sounding name of petersburg to petrograd
the war strained the russian economy -
strikes and riot's over food and coal shortage broke out in petrograd
on march 17 the goverment forced czoir nicholas to abdicate -
on november 7 1917 a botshevik led army of worker's, soldiers and sailor's took control of key position's in petrograd.
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trotsky who had escaped in 1907 and into exile had returned to petrograd in may 1917 and was chosen to head the soviet there in september.
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soon after lenin returned from finland and urged the bosshevius to take power from from the prouisional goverment
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communist russia gradually transfarmed itself into the soviet union it reconauered ukrane which it had lost in 1918 and georgia and eastern armenia which it had lost during the period of civil war
