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The war probably made the revolution happen earlier than it otherwise would have, but it did not cause it. -
The fall of Tsar Nicholas II marked the collapse of autocracy. -
The Bolsheviks took over in November. The provisional government was weak and unpopular; therefore, when the Bolsheviks attacked it, nobody was ready to defend it. -
Vladimir Lenin was the first head of government of soviet Russia. He was the leader of the Bolsheviks, and a very good one. -
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of War between Russia and Germany ( withdrawing Russia from the war). -
Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and the Polish armies invaded Russia to aid the anti-Bolshevik forces. It was not looking like the Bolsheviks would be able to stay in power for long. -
The secret police, collectivized agriculture, and progress towards industrialization all became fully developed under Stalin's lead. -
Stalin said “The Soviet Union is a good fifty or hundred years behind the capitalist countries. We must make up this difference in ten years or they will destroy us." Stalin put in place 5 year plans to catch the soviet union up to the rest of the world. He set the goal of collectivizing Soviet agriculture in his first five year plan. -
Stalin was paranoid of people plotting against him. Many people were executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia called Gulags. -
The second russian revolution finally came to an end. Stalin had completed his first and second five-year plans at this point.