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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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russia faced a series of crisis. the events showed the czar's weakness and paved the way for revolution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Woman textile workers led a citywide strike, within days riots flared up over shortage of bread and fuel.
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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.
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Russia and Germany signed the Treaty of Brestlitousk
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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.
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new economic policy- allowed peasents to sell their surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government.
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lenin suffered a stroke, he survived but the incident set in motion competition for heading up the communist party.