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Russia broke a treaty with Japan. Since they did Japan attacked them. Russia's citizens were very upset.
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About 200,000 workeres and their famiilies went to the czar's palace. They petitioned for better working conditions. The general ordered the soldiers to fire upon the crowd.
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The first dama met because they wanted russia to become a constitional monarchy. The czar split the dama apart after 10 weeks. They didn't really accomplish anything.
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The czar continues to make bad decisions when world war one comes around. He made the russians go into the war. He ignored the fact that they had a bad military and economics.
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World war one was a total war and required all the resources russia had. Since everything went to world war one everyone had to work. The woman textile workers went on a city wide strike for 5 days.
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The aremed factory's workers stormed the winter palace in petrograd. They tookover the government. They arrested the leaders of the provisional government.
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World war one has ended. Russia and Germany sign the treaty of brest-litousk. Russia had to surrend a lot of it's land to germany.
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Civil war broke out and raegd in Russia. Many west nations sent military aid to the white army. The destruction of russia left it in chaos.
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Lenin comes to power in Russia. Lenin created a small scale capitalism. They called it the new econimc policy.
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Country was named the USSR. Lenin had a storke and survived. He set up a competition for who would run the communist party.
