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Marxist Revolutionaries Split
Lenin leads the radical bolsheviks; he has to flee to Europe from Russia to avoid being arrested. Will he return? -
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The Russian Revolution
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Russia Goes Down
Japan attacks Russia at Port Auther, because of a series of broken agreements. Japan wins. -
Holy Sunday becomes bloody Sunday
200,000 workers and families approached the Czar's winter palace carrying petiton asking for better working conditions and personal freedom.Czar ordered firing squad on protesters; 1,000 wounded and several hundred dead. -
Nicholas Promises Freedom
Meeting of first Duma; Russia's parliament. Czar threatened by their power; dissolves it in 10 weeks. -
Russia goes into WW1
Russia goes into the great war and suffers great losses; 4 millon killed or wounded in the 1st year. Russia not prepared for this war. -
Rasputin (Mad Monk from Siberia)
The so called healer, self proclaimed monk has huge influence over the Czarina and her family; many are unhappy with the situation and plot to kill him. Will the monk ever die? -
Women Strike
Women textile workers strike, and riots form over bread and fuel. This time soldiers side with the workers. Czar loses power and must step down. -
Armed workers storm the Palace
Armed factory workers strom the winter palace and arrest goverment workers. Lenin returns. -
A treaty is here
Russia and Germany sign a treaty; Russia bows out of WWI. -
The Death of the Romanovs
The Czar and his family are put under house arrest; Lenin eventually orders their execution to help his Reds defeat the Whites -
Civil War: more deadly than earlier revolutions
The Red army shows Bolsheviks can seize power and keep it. The communists defeat those loyal to the Czar (Whites). -
Put aside new plans for small-scale capitalism
The new economic policy NEP. reforms under NEP allow Peasants to sell their own crops. -
Lenin has a stroke
Bolshevic revolution; The country named union of soviet socialist republics (USSR) in honor of the councils that helped launch bolshevic revolution. Lenin suffers a stroke; who will take power?
