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Marxists Revolution Split
Marxists revolutioaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
Japan Retaliated at Port Arthur
Japan attacked Russia because they broke a series of territory agreements with Japan. This led to a revolt in the midit of war. -
Bloody Sunday
200,00 people approached the czar's Winter Palace demanding better work conditions. Nickolas ll orded them to shoot at the crowd and about 1,000 were wounded and some were killed. -
Duma
Duma was Russia's first parliament but only lasted 10 weeks. Duma only lasted that long because Czar was hesitant to share his power. -
Russia Enters WW1
Russia joined WWI and was unprepared to handle the military. Germany keep defeating Russia and about 4 million Russain soldiers died in the first year alone. -
Riots
Women textile workers led citywide strikes for 5 days and fired up about shortages of bread. After the riots Czar Nicholas ll left his throne because of the loud protests. -
Storming of the Winter Palace
Factory workers stormed the Winter Palace and arrested government leaders. This led to Lenin distributing the farm land among peasents a truce with Germany and gave control of the factories to the workers. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Russians and Germans signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia surrenderd a lot of land to Germany and its allies. That triggered wide spread anger in Russia -
After the War
The civil war came to a close with over 14 million deaths. The war claimed the majority of the casualties but the famine that followed did contribute to the death total. -
New Economy
Russia did a small-scale verion of capitalism. Russia still controled major industries but let small businesses to operate under private ownership. -
New Name
Russia changed its name to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). That helped launch the Bolshevik Revolution.
