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Russian officers lead a protest against Nicholas 1's taking of the throne.
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In 1861 the Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed that serfs on private estates and domestic household serfs emancipated. They gained the full rights of free citizens which included right to marry without consent, and own proterty and business.
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Czar Nicholas was the last Czar of Russia after he abdicated the throne in 1917. He was poorly trained in political affairs and told a friend that he wasn't ready and that he never wanted to rule.
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The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party or RSDLP splits up in the Bolsheviks who believe in outright revolution and the Menshoviks who believe in reform.
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Lasted until early September 1905. Russia wanted a warm water part in the Pacific as well as for their navy and trade. The Japanese saw Russia as a threat and went to war. It ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth.
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Lasted until early September 1905. Russia wanted a warm water part in the Pacific as well as for their navy and trade. The Japanese saw Russia as a threat and went to war. It ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth.
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Unarmed protesters led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired at by the Imperial Guard as they went to the Winter Palace to petition to the Czar Nicholas II. They were all killed.
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Was mass political and social unrest that was spread throughout Russia. Some of it was directed against the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies.
According to author, Sidney Harcave, their were four problems that led to the revolution. The agrarian problme, nationality problem, labor problem, and educated class problem. -
The assination of the Archduke Frank Ferdinand led to a chain of events that led up to Russia's involvment in WWI.
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The last russian Czar. At the end of the Februrary Revolution he chose to abdicate.
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There were riots and strikes in Petrograd. The russian capital was formerly known as St. Petersburg but was changed to Petrograd because it sounded to German.
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Alexander was the second Prime Minister until the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.
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Lenin convinced other Bolshevik leaders that it was time to take control. In early November armed Bolsheviks captured government buildings and arrested people of the Provisional Government.
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Lasted until 1921.
The Red Army fought for the Bolshevik form of socialism. The White Army was made of loose allies with various interests like monarchism, capitalism, and forms of socialism. -
The Czar and his family were imprisioned in the Iaptiev House also known as the "house of special purpose".
When they sat down for they thought would be a family picture they were all executed. -
Stalin schemed his way to power after Trotsky was exiled. Though he turned Russia from a peasant country into an military and industrial superpower he ruled by terror and many people died while he ruled.
