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Facing Crises
Russia faced a series of crieses. These events showed the czar's weakness and paved the way for a revolution. -
The Unfair Attack
Bloody Sunday provoked a wave of stikes and violence that spead across the country. -
The Duma Greet for the First Time
Leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a constitutional monarchy similar to Britian, he was hesitant to share his power, the czar dissolved the Duma after 10 years. -
The Entry
Nicholas II made the fatefull decision to drag Russia into World War 1. Russia was unprepared to handle the military and economic costs. -
Revolution of March
Women textile workers in petrograd led to city wide strike. In the next five days, riots flared up over shortages of bread and fuel. -
Bolshevik Red Gaurds
Armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace in Petrogred. They took over government offices and arrested the leaders of provisional government. -
Bolsheviks Mess
Russia and Germany signed the treaty. The russian people were very mad that Russia had given a good chunk of land to Germany and to Germany's alliances. They odjected to the Bolshevils and their policies and to then murder the royal family, -
Shed No More Blood
End of Russia's civial war. -
N.E.P.
Lenin temporarliy pet aside his plans for a state controled economy. He resorted to a small scale verison of capitalism called the New Economic Policy or N.E.P. for short. Reforms under the N.E.P. allowed peasents sell their surplus crops instead of turning them over to the government. -
Bye Lenin
Lenin suffers a stroke and survived. Joseph Stalin takes over as a cold, hard leader. His means "Man of Steel" in russian. Lenin distrusted Stalin sayin "Comrade Stalin...... Has concentrated enormus power in his hands, and i'm not sure that he knows how to use that power with sufficient caution."