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Russian Revolution
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Reign of Czar Alexander III(1881-1894)
He believed a nation should have one language, one nationality, one religion(orthodoxy), and one form of administration(autocracy) Halted all reforms that his father made He was anti semitic and targeted Jewish people and used pogrom(targeted attacks against Jewish people) Targeted minorities and promoted the nobility -
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reign of Czar Nicholas II
Responsible for bloody sunday, Russo japanese war, and failure of WWI -
Russo Japanese war(1904-1905)
Russian and Japan had a treaty over Northern China(Manchuria) and Korea and russia broke it This served as proof as weakness and was considered embarrassing and Czar Nicholas II was blamed and added to his negative reputation -
Establishes Duma
This is an elective legislature and limits his power and only does it to make his subjects happy for the embarrassment of bloody sunday and the Russo Japanese war This does not really have much power -
Bloody Sunday
The 200,000 workers and their family go to the czars winter palace to protest for better working conditions, living conditions, and a national legislature and made it clear that they were trying to come in peace however the czar was not there The generals fired at them and 100 killed and 3000 hurt This sparked many riots and strikes and blamed czar Nicholas II for the actions -
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World War I
Czar Nicholas moves his palace to the war front so he can help lead the Russian troops and leaves his wife in charge of Russia The Russians wanted to pull out of the war much earlier as well as the war failing causing mass upset in Russia Russia pulled out in 1917 -
Rasputin
Rasputin was considered a holy man who was said to have magic healing powers and performed exorcisms Alexis has hemophilia which means his blood doesn't clot well Rasputin helped relieve some of Alexis symptoms People are worried that Rasputin was gaining political power and the nobility try to kill him multiple times death date is included -
Abdication of Czar Nicholas/March revolution
The workers went on strike because of his Nicholas's poor actions in bloody Sunday, WWI failure, and the loss of the Russo Japanese war The Duma didn't do anything as well so that contributed to the revolt The Czar stepped down and the Provisional government took over The government was unpopular because the government stayed in WWI and -
Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the Bolshevik(communist) party Spreads communist ideas through secret newspapers Lenin exiled/leaves because hes worried for his safety soviets:groups of russian people often organized by class in favor of a marxist revolution and serve as local governments Lenin returns when the provisional government is put in place
"Peace, Land, Bread" Lenin leads the Bolshevik party to the October Revolution(1917) Lenin Creates the secret police(Cheka) -
October Revolution
Lenin leads the Bolshevik party to the October Revolution(1917 -
Russian Civil War
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Establishment of the USSR
The USSR was established after 3 years of fighting the Russian civil war with the red army winning over the white army and would become one of the most powerful nations The USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
Lenin's Death
Lenin's Body was preserved in the center of Moscow Joseph Stalin was his successor -
Leon Trotsky's exile
Was exiled for rising against Stalin and threatening his power -
Stalin's Rise to power
Stalin transformed the Soviet Union into a power house