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Alexander III (Life)
He was borned March 10 [Feb. 26, old style], 1845, in St. Petersburg, Russia
And died on Nov. 1 [Oct. 20, O.S.], 1894, in Livadiya, Crimea.
Source:
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/14102/Alexander-III -
The Emancipation of the Russian Serfs (Abolishment of Serdom)
In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command.
Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared unlawful by presidential order.
Sources:
http://www.historytoday.com/michael-lynch/emancipation-russian-serfs-1861-charter-freedom-or-act-betrayal -
Nicholas II (Birth)
Nicholas II's mother, Maria Feodorovna, had been born in Denmark.
Nicholas II received his education through a string of private tutors, including a high-ranking government official named Konstantin Pobedonostsev. While Nicholas II excelled in history and foreign languages, ironically, the future leader struggled to comprehend the subtleties of politics and economics.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/nicholas-ii-21032713 -
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Nicholas II (Life)
He was borned on May 18, 1868, in Pushkin, Russia.
On July 17, 1918, Nicholas II and his family were murdered, in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/nicholas-ii-21032713 -
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Rasputin (Life)
It is not know the exact day and year he was borned (29-July-1872).
When he was a child he though the virgin called him.
He had a great influence in Russia during his life.
His apperance was not very usual.
He was mudered.
Sources:
http://www.phistoria.net/reportajes-de-historia/RASPUTIN_97.html -
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin founded the Russian Communist Party, led the Bolshevik Revolution and was the architect of the Soviet state. He was the posthumous source of "Leninism," the doctrine codified and conjoined with Marx's works by Lenin’s successors to form Marxism-Leninism, which became the Communist worldview.
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Vladimir Lenin (Life)
He was founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-lenin-9379007 -
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Joseph Stalin (Life)
Born on December 18, 1879, in Gori, Georgia.
Stalin died on March 5, 1953.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723#communist-party-leader -
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Alexander III (Emperor)
Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, opponent of representative government, and supporter of Russian nationalism.
He directed the country until his death.
Source:
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/14102/Alexander-III -
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Trans-Siberian Railway (Construction)
On May 31 1891 the project's initiation was marked with a special church service, and construction began.
s officially completed in October of 1916, after the Amur Railway and Amur Bridge were completed.
Source:
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Nicholas II (Coronation)
Nicholas II inherited the Russian throne when his father died of kidney disease at the age of 49 on October 20, 1894. Reeling from the loss, and poorly trained in affairs of state, Nicholas II hardly felt up to the task of assuming his father’s role.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/nicholas-ii-21032713#early-life -
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Nicholas II (Emperor)
He inherited the throne when his father, Alexander III, died in 1894.
On March 15, 1917 he abdicated the throne.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/nicholas-ii-21032713 -
Russo-Japanese War (Begining)
At this moment Russia and Japan were competing for the control of Korea and Manchuria. They sing a series of treaties and agreements over these territories, that later were broken by Russian.
Sources:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions in Russia.pdf
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514017/Russo-Japanese-War -
Division of Marxists into two groups
At his time they were divided into:
Mensheviks, the more moderate group, wanted a broad base of popular support for the revolution.
And the Bolsheviks, the more radical, supported a small number of committed revolutionaries.
Sources.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/08/23.htm
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf -
Russo-Japanese War (End)
After the Russian betrayal, Japan attacked them at Port Arthur and Manchuria.News of repeated Russian losses sparked unrest at home and led to a revolt in the midst of the war. In this military conflict Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.
Sources:
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514017/Russo-Japanese-War
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russi -
Bloody Sunday
This fatidic day, about 200,000 workers and their families approached the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. They were asking for better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature. The soldiers of Nicholas II were ordered to fire on unarmed people. The order was sended by the czar that was becoming more corrupt and appressive than ever before.
Sources:
-http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-massacre-in-russia
-http://historywithmrgreen -
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WW1 (World War I)
Russia left the war one year before because of the revolts and the revolution inside the country.
They signed a treaty with Germany.
Sources:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history -
Murder of Rasputin
Czarina Alexandra was influenced by a mysterious Rasputin, a self-described "holy man".
Czar son, Alexis, suffered from hemophilia, and Rasputin seemed to ease the boy's symptoms.
Video:
https://youtu.be/auinWKr9c2Q?t=2370
Sources:
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/russian-revolution-the-october-revolution-1917.html -
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Vladimir Lenin (In the Power)
The fledgling Soviet government went through a violent period after the revolution as various individuals vied for position and control. In 1922, Stalin was appointed to the newly created office of general secretary of the Communist Party.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723#communist-party-leader -
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Provisional Government
It is the name given to the government that led Russia from March 1917 to November 1917.
By July it was led by Alexander Kerensky - the man who had informed the Duma on March 11th that 25,000 troops were on the way to support them.
Sources:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/provisional_government.htm
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf -
February (March) Revolution
Russia’s February Revolution (so named because of the Julian calendar that Russians still used at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg (Petrograd).
At first the soldiers obeyes orders to shoot the rioters but later sided with them.
Czar Nicholas, who had survived a revolution in 1905, was forced to abdicate his throne.
Sources:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/march-8-1917-russias-february-revolution-begins-in-st-petersburg/?_r=1
http://historywithmrgreen.com/ -
October (April) Revolution
Lenin and other revolutionaries returned to Russia after having been permitted by the German government to cross Germany. The Germans hoped that the Bolsheviks would undermine the Russian war effort.
The failure of the all-out military offensive increased discontent with the provisional government, and provoke disorders and violence in Petrograd.
Source:
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/russian-revolution-the-october-revolution-1917.html -
Vladimir Lenin (In the Power)
In 1917, a tired, hungry and war-weary Russia deposed the tsars. Lenin quickly returned home and, perhaps sensing his own path to power, quickly denounced the country’s newly formed Provisional Government, which had been assembled by a group of leaders of the bourgeois liberal parties.
Source:
http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-lenin-9379007 -
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The Russian Civil War
It was to tear Russia apart for three years – between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations.
Sources:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russian_civil_war1.htm -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
It is a treaty signed by Russia and Germany at the end of the war. Russia surrendered a large part of its territory to Germany and its allies. That was the price for Russia to leave the WWI before.
The treaty was disgusting for many Russians. They objected to the Bolsheviks and their policies and to the murder of the royal family.
Sources:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf
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The NEP (New Economic Policy)
It is a small-scale version of capitalism.
And it was Lenin temporary economic plan.
Source:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf -
USSR (Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics)
It is the name given by Lenin to the country. He wanted to keep nationalism, and he organiced Russia into several self-governing republics under a central government. Sources:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/614785/Union-of-Soviet-Socialist-Republics -
Leon Trotsky Into Internal Exile
He was the revolutionary leader, expertly commanded the Bolshevik Red Army.
Trotsky began his internal exile in Alma-Ata and the next January was expelled from the Soviet Union outright.
Sources:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/1929-tro.htm
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Joseph Stalin (Dictator)
After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party. By the late 1920s, he had become dictator of the Soviet Union.
Sources:
http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin -
Leon Trotsky Into External Exile
He was forced into exile and was not longer a threat. Stalin now stood poised to wield absoluted power as a dictator.
Sources:
http://historywithmrgreen.com/page2/assets/Revolutions%20in%20Russia.pdf
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/1929-tro.htm -
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Joseph Stalin (Dictator)
In 1912, Lenin, then in exile in Switzerland, appointed Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Three years later, in November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, with Lenin as its first leader.
Souce:
http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin
http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-stalin
