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Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916)
- Rasputin was a mystic, healer, and an exorcist, but he was also an uneducated peasant
- The Czarina, Alexandra, was devoted to Rasputin because he was helping her son with his hemophilia
- WWI turned the Russian people against Rasputin because he convinced Alexandra to let his incompetent friends into the government
- Rasputin was eventually assassinated by nobles in 1916. He wa poisoned, shot, and when both of those failed, he was drowned in a river
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Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
- Vladimir Lenin was learning about Marxism, and he learned the flaws in capitalism and how history was composed of class wars
- Lenin gained support for his Communist party, the Bolshevik party, by publicating a newspaper that was secretly sent out through Russia
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Russian Revolution
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Reign of Czar Alexander (1881-1894)
- He was anti-semitic and contributed to the idea that Jewish people were bad
- Alexander III promoted only the nobles
- He wished for autocracy, orthodoxy, and national hom
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Reign of Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917)
- Wanted a monarchy
- Russia was struggling to industrialize and the Czar ignored the people
- He created the Duma, which was an elected legislature. In doing this, he created a constitutional monarchy
- Czar Nicholas was not prepared for WWI and he stepped down from the throne leaving a provisional government in place
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Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
- Russia and Japanese were fighting over territory in northern China
- Japan had an advantage due to them being far more industrialized than Russia, they had a better navy, and they had more troops than Russia did
- Russia lost the war, and it led to civil unrest which led to strikes which made Czar Nicholas make the Duma and change Russia to a constitutional monarchy
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Duma
- The creation of the Duma followed the Russo-Japanese War and Bloody Sunday. It was done to improve the Czar's reputation
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Bloody Sunday (January 22,1905)
- 200,000 workers marched to the Czar's Winter Palace to present him with a list of grievances
- The police opened fire on the people and 100 were killed and 3,000 were injured
- The result of this was an uprising across Russia and people stopped believing in the government
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WWI (1914-1918)
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Provisional Government
- After the Czar stepped down, a provisional government was put in place
- The provisional government was unpopular because they refused to end Russia's involvement in WWI. The provisional government was overthrown in October of 1917
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USSR (1922-1991)
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Stalin's Rise to Power (1922-1927)
