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Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
Japanese attack Russia at Port Aruthur -
About 200,000 workers approach the czar’s palace and fought for better working conditions. -
First Duma met leaders who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy. Czar dissolved the Duma after 10 weeks -
Russia and Germany sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk where Russia surrenders its large territory to the Germans and their allies. -
Women workers hold a strike, and soldiers shoot them at first but eventually side with them. -
Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd. They called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards. Within days Lenin ordered that all farmlands be given out among the peasants. -
Civil War takes place in Russia. -
Czar decides to involve Russia in the war. Citizens are unhappy. -
Lenin changes his state-controlled nation to a capitalist country called the NEP. -
Russia was renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and were changed to a communist party.