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Marxists Revolutionaries Split
Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. the more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. the charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader. -
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WW2
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Russis Faced Crisis
russia faced a series of crisis. the events showed the czar's weakness and paved the way for revolution. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday, about 200,000 workers and there families aproached the czar's winter palace in St.Petersburg. They carried a petition asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and stuff and Nicholas 2's generals ordered troops to fire, 1,000's were wounded and 100's were killed. -
Russia's First Parliment
Russia's first paliment also known as a Duma was a meeting with moderates who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy like Britain. But he refused and stopped the Duma after 10 weeks. -
Nicholas II's Fateful Decision
Nicholas 2 dragged Russia into WW1. Russia was unprepared to handle it through so before a year had passed about 4 million Russian soldiers died. -
Lady's were going on STRIKE!!!
Woman textile workers led a citywide strike, within days riots flared up over shortage of bread and fuel. -
Winter Palace meets its match!! (duh duh duh duuuuh)
Armed factory workers who called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards stormed into the winter palace in Petrograd. They took over government offices and arrested the provisional governmant leaders. -
Treaty of Brestlitousk
Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brestlitousk -
Civil war is a raging
civil war raged in Russia. Several western nations including the U.S. sent military aid and forces to Russia to help the White Army. However, they were of little help. -
New Economic Policy
new economic policy- allowed peasents to sell their surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government. -
Lenin suffer's a stroke
lenin suffered a stroke, he survived but the incident set in motion competition for heading up the communist party.