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Rapid industrialisation known as the 'great spurt' initiated under Sergei Witte
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Coronation of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra
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Khodynka Tragedy
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Japanese attack on Port Arthur in China sparks Russo-Japanese war
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Bloody Sunday Massacre
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The mutiny of the Battleship Potemkin
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October Manifesto
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Fundamental Laws passed
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First Duma dissolved
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Stolypin assassinated
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Tsar Nicholas takes charge of armed forces
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Rasputin Murdered
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International Women's Day marches
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Petrograd garrison mutiny
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Petrograd Soviet formed
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Provisional Committee assumes authority
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Lenin returns to Russia and presents his April Theses
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Kerensky's June Offensive
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July Days
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Kornilov Affair
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Bolshevik Central Committee meets to discuss whether to seize power from the Provisional Government
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A Bolshevik-led insurrection seizes power in the 'storming' of the Winter Palace