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Reign of Czar Alexander III
assumed the throne after his father passed and decided to reverse what his father had done and opposed representative government. -
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Reign of Czar Nicholas II
received a military education, didn't trust many people out of paranoia that they were trying to overthrow him. Was not a great emperor, and was the only Russian emperor personally interested in Asia -
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Bolshevik party
a Russian communist party that was led by Vladimir Lenin and seized control of Russia in october of 1917, becoming the dominant political power -
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Russo-Japanese War
military conflict where Japan became the first Asian power in that time to defeat an European power -
Bloody Sunday
Lenin gathers forces for a socialist rebellion. group of workers are led to the czar's palace and Imperial forces began shooting which kills and wounds hundreds of people -
March Revolution
from February to March. overthrew the imperial government -
Start of world war I
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia which starts wwI -
Russian Provisional Government
internationally recognized government of Russia -
Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia
after a decade of exile, Lenin returns back to Russia to help the revolution -
Bolshevik Revolution
revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin launched a coup d'etat against Duma's provisional government -
The Red Terror
Bolshevik-led campaign of intimidations, arrests, violence, and executions -
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Russia Civil War
issues between the new bolshevik government (red army) and socialists who were against it (whites) -
Brest-Litovsk Treaty
a peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central powers -
Execution of the Romanovs
They were awoken in the middle of the night and brutally attacked while they believed they were on the move to another location. they were shot, stabbed and beaten. -
End of Russian civil war
the last white stronghold, held by Pyotr Wrangel was defeated, marked as an ending point of the war -
U.S.S.R.
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian republics came together to establish the U.S.S.R -
Lenin dies
leader of the October revolution dies after he had fallen into a coma