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Nicholas the second comes to power
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Number of factories in Russia more than doubled
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Russian Marxists split into two groups over revolutionary tactics
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Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St Petersburg
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Nicholas reluctantly approved the creation of the Duma, Russia's first parliment
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Russia faced a series of crises showing the czar's weakness, paving the way for the revolution
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Russia enter World War 1
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Nicholas the 2nd moved his headquarters to the war front, hoping to rally his discoureged troops to victory
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group of nobles murdered Rasputin
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Women Textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide stike, this led to many riots flarin over shortages of bread and fuel
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Russia and Germany singed a treaty of Brest-Litosvk, Russia surrendured a ;arge part of its territory to Germany and it's allies
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Civil war rages in Russia
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the country is named the Union of the Soviet Socialist Rebublics
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Stalin becomes the dictator of the Soviet Union
