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Rasputin Assassinated
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Petrograd Soviets formed
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The March Revolution
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Abdication of Czar Nicholas II
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Communists control Russia
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Bolshevik Revolution and seizure of Winter Palace
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Period: to
Russian Civil War
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Lenin shipped by Germans to Russia
-Lenin agreeded after Trotsky asked him to
-was signed to get Russia out of the war (WW1)
-Russia had to give up some territory because of it -
Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
-Peace treaty
-allowed Russia to exit the World War 1 fighting
-signed between the Central Powers and Russia -
Royal family murdered
People Shot:
-Nicholas II
-his immediate family
-4 servants -Killed in the cellar of the castle
-the girls did not die immediately because of jewel encrusted corsets
-later they were shot in the head at close range
