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Czar Nicholas II
(Person)
He reigned 1894-1917
He was the last Russian ruling Czar & was assassinated/executed with his family. -
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Grigori Rasputin
(Person)
He was known as a "Holy Man" & able to control Alexie's bleeding. He was later assassinated by Prince Felix by poison, shot 4 times, beaten with iron bar then tied up & stuffed into ice of Neva River in Russian winter time. -
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Vladimir Lenin
(Person)
He was a communist revolutionary and later became the leader of the Soviet Russian government. -
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Josef Stalin
(Person)
He won the power struggle after Lenin died. He wants to transform the Soviet Union into a industrial society instead of an agricultural society. So he focused on "socialism in one country". -
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Aleksandr Kerensky
(Person)
He was member/Leader of the duma also known as the Prime Minister of Russia. He wanted a liberal socialist-democratic government -
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Russo-Japanese War
(War)
The defeat of Russian from japan was humiliating & lead to the 1905 Revolution -creation of the Duma. -
September 1917
(Politics)
Conservative threat from General Kornilov. Bolsheviks join the provisional government to defend Petrograd. Lenin returns & joins the coalition. -
Bread Riot
(Politics)
It was International Woman's Day, so the women had organized a bread riot in Petrograd & the Socialist staged a general strike. -
Workers' Strike
(Politics)
200,000 workers marched through Petrograd. -
Imperial Response
(Politics)
Alexandra blames the Duma. Nicholas orders Petrograd militia to put down the strike. Police & militia fire into the crowd & kill around 2 dozen. -
Counter Response
(Politics)
The police refused to act & removed their uniforms to join the crowd. So the troops switched sides. Ministers of the government arrested. -
Czar Nicholas II final response
(Politics)
Nicholas dissolved the Duma. Unable to return to Petrograd to restore order due to the rail strike.
His generals told Nicholas that he should abdicate so he does. -
Vladimir Lenin arrives to Petrograd
(Politics)
Radical Bolsheviks kick out the Mensheviks from the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin arrives & demands a communist revolution then the Petrograd mob is not with him. -
Lenin goes flees to Finland
Kerensky orders the arrest of all Bolshevik leaders. Lenin goes into hiding in Finland. -
October Revolution
(Politics)
Kerensky orders arrests of Bolsheviks, Trotsky urges Bolsheviks to strike back. -
October Revolution response
(Politics)
Red Guard occupies key locations around the city. City goes on with its daily routine, -
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Russian Civil War
(War)
Reds VS Whites
Red Terror, system of political repression. British, French, American, & Japanese intervention. -
Death of Lenin
(Person)
Lenin died of a stroke at 54 years old & his successor was unclear, Trotsky & Stalin most likely
