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Battle of Tannenberg
The Germans won. The Russians were really struggling with almost the complete destruction of their army -
the death of Rasputin
He was shot by Yusupova, Rasputin ran into a courtyard however he was shot again. Then they tied him up and threw him into the Neva River, where they thought he died. They then burned his body to make sure he completely died. -
The establishment of the provisional government under Kerensky
It was a temporary form of government after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II -
The March Revolution/ end of the monarchy
The end of the monarchy was replaced and overthrown by the provisional government -
Lenin’s return from exile
he came back to rule over the Bolsheviks, he found a passage through Germany, it was a secret. -
The Bolshevik takeover in November
the people of the Bolsheviks party, they stormed the capital of Russia. -
The Russian Civil War Starts
The war was sparked by the provisional government -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russia withdrew from WWI and because of this they lost major land. -
Assassination of the Romanov family
Nicholas II and his wife and his five kids were all shot, under the orders of the soviet union. They even shot the dog. -
Lenin’s establishment of the Comintern
this was to keep communism within Russia. -
Lenin’s New Economic Policy
The system would be a free market and operate in a profit basis. -
Reds win Civil War
The reds won because of strong leaders and they were all fighting and working together, they were more united. -
Lenin’s death
He died at age 53 after going into a coma. His official cause of death was a disease of the blood. -
Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan
It was for collectivization of agriculture and the fuel extraction and steel production . -
The Great Purge
It was to get rid of the soviet union and eliminate public leaders. -
Trotsky flees to Mexico
He was outmaneuvered by Stalin and expelled from the Politburo and he went to turkey, France, and Norway before he settled in Mexico.