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Marxists revolutionaries disagree over revolutionary tactics. The more radical Bolsheviks are ready to risk everything. The charismatic Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader.
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Russia and Japan competed for control of Korea and Manchuria. They signed agreements over the territories but Russia broke them. Japan retaliated by attacking the Russians at Port Arthur, Manchuria
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About 200,000 workers approached the Czars palace demanding for better working conditions and more personal freedom and an elected national legislature. Generals order soldiers to fire on the workers in the crowd. 1,000 were injured and several hundred were killed.
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Leaders were moderates who wanted Russia to become a more constitutional monarchy. Czar didnt want to share his power so he dissolved the Dyuma after 10 weeks.
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Nicholas II drags Russia into WWI and Russia was unprepared to fight and the cost of the military. German machine guns mowed down advancing Russians by the German army. More than four million Russian soldiers were killed.
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Women textile workers in Petrograd led a citywide strike. Riots flared over bread and fuel shortages over the next five days. Nearly 200,000 workers swarmed the streets.
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Without warning, armed factory workers stormed the Winter Palace. They called themselves the Bolshevik Red Guards. They took over the government offices and arrested the leaders of the provisional government.
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Russia surrendered a large part of its territory to Germany and its allies. The humiliating terms of the treaty triggered lots of anger among the Russians
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The civil war rages on between the Bolsheviks and the White army for power in Russia
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Lenin temporarily put aside his plan for a state controlled economy. He resorted to a small scale version of capitalism. He call it the New Economic Policy. The government kept control of major banks, industries and means of communication. It allowed peasants to sell surplus crops instead of giving them over to the government.
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Lenin suffered a stroke and Stalin soon took ever in his place. He worked behind the scnes to bring his supporters to pwer.
