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Risking Everything
-http://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1912/tactics.htm -Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics.
-The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything.
-The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader -
Battle of Port Arthur
-Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuna, in Feb, 1904
-Japan Navy was planning suprise attacks on Russian naval forces -
Bloody Sunday
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905) -200,000 workers and families approached the Czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg.
-Carried petition asking for better working conditions
-More personal freedom -
Duma Meeting
-http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/russian-imperial-duma/ -Duma Meeting
-Wanted Russia to become a Constitutional monarchy
-Surrenderd to the Brittish
- Russia's first Parliment -
Fatal Decesions
-https://suite101.com/a/russias_position_in_wwi-a71574 -Nicholas the 2nd made a fateful decision to bring russia into WWI.
-Russia had poorly equiped troops
- Russia military was NOT ready
-Under equiped
-Not trained
- Brought an end to the ruling of Nicholas the 2nd -
STRIKE!
-http://www.local-life.com/st-petersburg/articles/1917-russian-revolution -Woman textile workers in Petrograd led to a city wide strike
-Riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel
-200,000 workers are "down with autocracy."
-"Down with the war." -
Storming of the Palace
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storming_of_the_Winter_Palace --Without warning, armed factory workers stormed the winter palace in Pertogred calling themselvs Bolshevik Red Guards
- Looked over Government offices
- Arrested leaders of the Provisional Government -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
-http://russiasgreatwar.org/media/international/brest.shtml -Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk
-Russia surrenderd a large part of its territory to Germany and its allies -
Russian Civil War
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War -Civil War raged in Russia
-Allies sent help with the Civil War
-Little help
-Not good for Russia because during their Civil War they were also fighting in WWI -
Self-Controled Economy
-http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/new_economic_policy.html -Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state-controlled economy
-New Economic Policy: small version of capitolism -
Civil war ends
-http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/4th-congress/education.htm -Communist party
-2 months earlier the Russian Civil war ends
- Moved his supporters in to positions of power
