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Marxists Revolutionaries Split
Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladmir Lenin becomes the leader. -
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Russian Revolution
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Japan Battles Russia
Russia and Japan competed for Korea and Manchuria. They both signed a treaty for the two countries and men Russia broke the treaty. Japan then attacked the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria. -
Bloody Sunday Rights Strike
200,000 workers went to St.Petersburg with a petition. The petition was for better working conditions, personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas ll ordered fire on the strikers and 1,000 peole were wounded and several hundred were killed. -
The Duma
Nicholas ll approved the creation of Russia's first parliment (The Duma). They had their first meeting in May, the leaders were moderates wanting Russia to have a constitutional monarchy like Britain. Nicholas ll started to not want to share his power and the czar after 10 weeks dissolved the parliment. -
World War l
Nicholas ll dragged his weak and unadvanced army into World War l againist the Germans. Within a year of fighting 4 million Russians were dead. They wer unprepared to handle the cost of war. Other countries knew about their weak army during the RussoJapanese War. -
The Textile Strike
In Petrograd, women texile workers led a city wide strike with 200,000 workers. They stormed the streets shouting "Down with the autocracy!" and "Down with War!" due to the shortage of bread and fuel. The soilders first obeyed orders to shoot and then later sided with the strikers. -
All Power to the Soviets
Armed factory workers stormed the winter palace in Petrograd without warning. They call themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards. The factory workers took over government offices and arrested the leaders. As quickly as the czarist regime had been replaced was compared to Kerensky and his colleagues dissappearing. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed by Germany and Russia. Germany gained a large part of terriotory from Russia. The Russians were angered by this, leading them to object to Bolsheviks and murdered the royal family. -
The Civil War
The Civil War raged in Russia. Many western countries sent military aid and forces to Russia to help the white army. Unfortunately, they were very little halp and the red army was able to seize power and maintain it. -
New Econmic Policy
Lenin restorted to a small-scale verison of capitalism, leaving his state-controlled economy. With the New Econmic Policy, the peasants started to sell their surplus crops instead of giving it to the government. It allowed small factories, businesses, and farms having private ownership. But for the banks, major industries, and communications were still under control of the government. -
Climb to Top
They changed the country name to USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) and became a communist country. Stalin began to climb to the top of the government. Stalin worked behind the scenes to move his supporters into positions.
