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Communism Party
Caming from Karl Marx idea of Communism, Karl used the communism to descrive the classless socaity that will come after the workers will take power. Yet in reality the Communist Party hold all the power. In 1924, the Communists created a constitution based on socialist and democratic principles. -
Bloody Sunday
workers and their families approached the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They carried a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas II’s generals ordered soldiers to fire on the crowd. More than 1,000 were wounded and several hundred were killed. -
WWI Began
Russia fought along with Freach and Britain aganist Germay and it's allies. Russia had suffered large lost in the war yet was not given any rewards. -
Rasputin is Killed
Rusputin was a A self-described “holy man,” and claimed to have magical healing powers. Rusputin healed Nicholas and Alexandra’s son and in return he got to make key political decisions. He opposed reform measures and obtained powerful positions for his friends. In 1916 he was murdured by a group of nobles -
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Febuary Revolution
Started when demonstrators clamoring for bread took to the streets in the Russian capital of Petrograd Supported by huge crowds of striking industrial workers, the protesters clashed with police but refused to leave the streets. The Revolution came to end when Cazr Nichols abanded the throne -
Czar Nicholas abdicates the throne
Eussian ruler Czar Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. Cazr was not trianed or inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. -
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October Revolution
After the February Revolution, power was shared between the weak provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head. -
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Civil war between the White and Red armies
The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty of Breast-Litovsk signed between Germany and Russia, casuing Russia to lose a great deal of its land to Germay and it's allies. Those terms angred many Russians, they objected
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Lenin Takes Power
After signing the treaty with Germany, Lenin took power on the Bolshivks. Lenin was determined to secure ‘peace at any price’ -
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Stalin Becomes Dictator
Under Stalin terror rule , the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. After Lenin death Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party -
The USSR is established
As the Bolshevikis leader saw natalism great strength, Lenin united and organized the several self governing republics under one government. The government was named the the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after the Bloshevikis leaders that helped lunch the Bolshevikis Revoultion.
