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It took place in Imperial Russia. Russian army officers led 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother removed himself from the line of succession.
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He was the last emperor of Russia.
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The Russian Social Democratic Party was formed in 1898 to unite the various revolutionary organizations of the Russian Empire into one party.
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It was "the first great war of the 20th century."
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Unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soliders of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Czar Nicholas II.
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It was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
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World War I was hard for Russia because they had really limited resources for the army to use. About one in every three soldiers actually had a rifle.
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Petrograd became St. Petersburg.
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He chose to abdicate after the end of the February Revolution.
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Although the attack portrayed a savage battle, it was relatively bloodless. The immediate outcome was to plunge Russia into a brutal civil war that ended with the Bolshevik victory in 1921.
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It was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolsheviks and the Menshiviks.
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