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The russian revolution was a group of revolutions in russia in 1917, Which took apart the Tsarist autocracy which led to a rise of the soviet union.
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Lenin and the bolsheviks take control in petrograd and overthrow the public
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The Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia. The terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland, and peace on the Eastern Front allows Germany to shift soldiers to the Western Front, causing serious problems for the French, British, and Americans. http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/timeline.html
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A typhoid epidemic raged in Petrograd, Russia, killing 200 daily.
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Lithuania and Russia signed a peace treaty in Moscow.
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League of Nations refused to assist starving Russians.
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In the German-Soviet treaty of Rapallo both sides take up diplomatic relations and agree that any open questions resulting from the war are settled. With this the Soviet Union renounces any claims due to the Versailles-Treaty. This alienates France, which had planned to shift the huge Russian pre-war debts to France (which the Soviet Union simply did not acknowledge) upon Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rapallo_(1922)
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Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 53 and a major struggle for power in the Soviet Union began. A triumvirate led by Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin. By 1928, Stalin had assumed absolute power, ruling as an often brutal dictator until his death in 1953 of a brain hemorrhage. In 1998 Vladimir Brovkin published "Russia After Lenin."http://www.timelines.ws/countries/RUS_B_1911_1944.HTML
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Mar 26, U.S. oil companies bought 190,000 tons of kerosene from Russia for $3.2 million.
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Prince John Kropotkin, son of Russian Prince Alexei Kropotkin, was beaten to death on a Paris street. Soviet agents were suspected.
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