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A peaceful protest of the Tsar turns deadly after the imperial guard begins shooting protesters.
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Roits by striking workers and defecting soldiers, Tsar Nicholas II abdicates.
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Alexander Kerensky is appointed by the Duma as prime minister of the povisional goverment.
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Duma declears Russia a republic
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Bolsheviks overthrow the Kerensky goverment and install Vlandimer I. Lenin as leader of Russia
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Lenin is leader of Russia
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Lenin creates the secret police, the Cheka
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Lenin changes the name of the Bolshviks party to the Communist
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The Communist party signs the Teaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and accepts territorial losses for leaving WW1
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Nicholas II, his fife, and their children are killed by the secret police
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The Civil war ends with the 'Reds' defeating the "Whites"
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Joseph Stalin is appointed general ssecretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party
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Lenin has his first of three strokes
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Lenin suffers his third stroke and is removed from power, opening a power struggle.
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Lenin dies and a power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky begins
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This leaves Stalin in charge.
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The Soviet Union launches the first Five-Year Plan for rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
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Famine spreads throughout the Soviet Union causing millions to die because, Stalin forced collectivization
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the Gulagis established
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Stalin and Hitler sign a non-agressive pact with one another
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Stalin has Trotsky executed in mexico while exiled.
