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Russia and Japan competed for control of Korea and Manchuria. Both signed agreement over the territories. But japan retaliated by attacking the Russians.
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200,000 workers and their families approached czar's winter palace. They had a pettition asking for better working conditions. Generals ordered to fire on the workers.
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Leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to be constitianal monarchy. Czar didn't want to share power and ended the Duma after 10 weeks.
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An unprepared military went to war with its weak generals and poorly equiped soldiers. Were defeated many times during the war resulting in more than 4 million Russian soldiers dead, wounded or captured.
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Women textile workers had a city wide strike starting riots over bread and fuel shortages. 200,000 workers stormed the streets shouting and got shot at, until the soldiers sided with them.
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People were rallying in cities chanting phrases. Armed factory workers stormed the winter palace calling themselves the Bolshevek Red Guards.
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Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia lost territory and it started a civil war.
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Many nations sent in military to help the white army. Red guards defeated white army. 14 million of Russians died from hunger and flu epidemics.
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Lenin made a form of capitalism called New Economic Policy. Peasants could sell crops instead of giving them to the government.
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Russia was named the Union of Soviet Socialist Rebpublic in honor of people that helped in starting the Bolshevik Revolution
