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serfs are free
The serfs are free. But they still have little rights and little land. -
russian social democratic labor party is formed
it is formed by the marxist. thought to be a big help but they were bad -
the democrtic gov is split up into 2 parts
One group is V.I Lenin. the other one is menshevics. V.I Lenin had more power. -
Winter palace march
Thousands of children woman and men made a peaceful march in St.penterburg winter palace. Czars men fired and sadly hundreds were killed -
mocow uprising gone
The army had crushed the moscow uprising. the people were not to pleaced. main leader leon trosky arested -
Dumas first 2 crushed
The very first Dumas are defeted. That was a main blow on rebelion leaders. -
3rd Duma gone.
The 3rd Duma is gone and the leaders are confused to what to do. also that they were defeted and could not come up with a plan. -
War
Germany declared war on Russia in August 1914. Soon afterward, Russia changed the German-sounding name of St. Petersburg to Petrograd. The Germans easily overwhelmed a Russian army that was poorly trained and badly led. The war strained the Russian economy. Shortages of food and fuel resulted, increasing the level of social discontent. Within the army, untrained soldiers became rebellious. Many Russian army units refused to go on fighting the war with Germany. -
Murdered
A group of nobles who are loyal to the Czar murdered Rasputin the Czar. the country was shakin and confused. -
The uprising
On March 8, 1917 (February 25, on the old Russian calendar), strikes and riots over food and coal shortages broke out in Petrograd. This uprising became known as the February Revolution. Troops sent to stop the uprising joined the demonstrators instead. -
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Czar gone then gone forever
On March 15, 1917, the government forced Czar Nicholas to abdicate (resign his throne). Nicholas and his family were later taken into custody. The Bolsheviks killed them at Yekaterinburg in 1918. -
Soviet Union gone.
Also in March 1917, leaders of several workers’ groups, left-leaning members of the Duma, and some soldiers revived the Petrograd soviet that had been first set up in 1905. The new soviet—called the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies—opposed the provisional government. It became a model for other soviets that were soon set up throughout Russia. -
Lenin Back
Lenin, who had lived in Switzerland since 1914, returned to Petrograd in April 1917. There, he began calling for an overthrow of the provisional government. In July, soldiers began another uprising in Petrograd. -
TheGeneral is Czar
In September 1917, General Lavr Kornilov, the army commander in chief, made a bid to seize power. As Kornilov advanced on Petrograd, Kerensky released the imprisoned Bolsheviks and allowed them to arm the workers. Kornilov's force broke up before reaching the capital, and the coup attempt ended without violence. With their popularity on the rise, especially among soldiers, the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd Soviet soon after the “Kornilov affair -
the army that controlls
On Nov. 7, 1917 (Oct. 25, 1917, on the old calendar), a Bolshevik-led army of workers, soldiers, and sailors took control of key positions in Petrograd. That night, they captured the Winter Palace, which had become the headquarters of Kerensky's provisional government. Other cities, including Moscow, soon fell to the Bolsheviks. -
Bolsheviks controll
On Nov. 8, 1917, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets authorized the Bolsheviks to set up a Council of People's Commissars to run the national government. The new government established a secret police force called the Cheka. Local soviets in towns and cities throughout Russia gave workers control of factories and confiscated the property of large landowners, the Russian Orthodox Church, and anyone who opposed the revolution. -
the treaty
On Dec. 2, 1917, Russia negotiated a cease-fire. On March 3, 1918, the government signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to prevent German invasion. Under this treaty, Russia lost a quarter of its territory. Ukraine and Finland became independent. Bessarabia (now mostly part of Moldova), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the Polish territory that had been ruled by Russia fell under German control. Russia lost many of its factories and about a third of its food-producing land. -
Capital moved.
In March 1918, the Bolshevik government moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow. The Bolsheviks also altered the name of their Russian Social Democratic Labor Party to the Russian Communist Party. It later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
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Revolution ended
. In 1922, the Russian Communist government formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union. In April 1922, Joseph Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party. From this position, he gained control of the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin in 1924. Stalin remained in power until his own death in March 1953. -
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Reconized
At first many foreign nations refused to recognize the new Soviet government. The United Kingdom recognized the Soviet Union in 1924, followed by the United States in 1933. The Communist system finally ended in Russia in 1991, two years after it had collapsed in the East European countries. The Soviet Union itself also broke up.
