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The communist idea by Karl Marx leading to Russia people demanding greater representation.
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Reason for war was Japan expanding its influence in Korea and Russia refusing to accept it. Japan attacked Russian fleet in Port Arthur. Japanese won the Battle of Mactan and the Battle of Tsushima. Peace Negotiations led by Sergei Vitter, Russia lost Port Arthur.
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A priest Father Gapon led a procession through Russia's capital st. Petersburg to present a petition to the emperor. The crowd was fired upon leading to hundreds of death causing riots.
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He brought agri culture reform before being assassinated in a theater .
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He left his wife Empress Alexandra incharge of the capital with his advisor Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was blamed for royal family corruption and assassinated.
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The people were divided into Reds and Whites. Red were communists, socialists, anarchists. Whites were nationalists, tsarists, liberals, conservatives and allied powers.
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Trotsky and team of delegates secured peace with central powers.
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White General Kolchak was brutal and responsible for mass executions of dissenters. He captured Yekaterinburg. Executed along with his family.
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The Red territory had greater levels of industrialization, better infrastructure, more population, etc. Bolsheviks began the red terror to control people here. They shot protesters and Trotsky holding the family of the generals .
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Josef Stalin held the place of general secretary, highest political post in the USSR .Trotsky and Stalin held important positions.
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Stalin win the power and Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union.
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The central government ran the farms and 90% of produce went to the government. Stalin became a powerful tyrant.