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The war happened because the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire fought over who should get parts of Manchuria (northern China).
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Czar Nicholas II agrees to form a legislative elected assembly (Duma). It’s purpose was to create reform in Russia.
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Trench warfare fought within Europe, which began with Russia, England, France fighting against Germany, Austria, Italy. Fighting would eventually expand to include other countries outside Europe.
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When the public opinion turns negative about the war and the Czar. Nicholas II was forced to resign.
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Revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government.
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The war was between Bolshevik “Red Army'' and Democratic/Imperial “White Army''. Bolshevik wins the Civil War and establishes Russia and neighborhoods areas as the Soviet Union.
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Stalin managed to get in Lenin’s inner circle and was considered his right hand. When Lenin dies he says that Stalin is too harsh and says that Trotsky would be better. But Stalin threatens to leave.
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Stalin had a 5 year plan, to basically change Russia and make it his own. He launches a program that would crash industrialization that was designed. Collectives or giant state-owned farms would’ve helped pay for his modernization plan.
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Stalin decided to kill anyone who could be a threat to him. The police would’ve arrested anyone who looked suspicious and then tried to make them admit to their crime.
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Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died on March 5 1953. Russia had a funeral for him and they all mourned him.
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He was the leader of the Soviet Union after Kruschev. Under his leadership the Soviet economy and quality of goods got worse.
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The Politburo elected Gorbachev as General Secretary. While in service he faced problems, the economy of the USSR was falling behind.
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Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s.
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Glasnost was taken to mean increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. It reflected a commitment of the Gorbachev administration to allowing Soviet citizens to discuss publicly the problems of their system and potential solutions.
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. Leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
