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Rasputin is killed
- Rasputin had healed Czar Nicholas II's son of hemophilia
- Rasputin's hold over the family strengthened
- Czar's advisers worried that Rasputin's influence was interfering with his rule
- Rasputin was poisoned, but survived
- He shot and killed after midnight, but not before jumping up and attacking his killer
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Communist Control of Russia
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March Revolution
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Bolshevik Revolution (Seizing of Winter Palace)
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Petrograd Soviets form
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Czar Nicholas II abdicates
- Revolution began to boil in Russia
- Nicholas, who was never properly trained to be a ruler, surrendered his throne
- Execution of Romanovs followed
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Lenin is sent back to Russia by Germany
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Russian Civil War
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Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Romanov family is killed
- Russian authorities and Bolsheviks were conspiring against the Romanov family
- Family was locked in a house after Nicholas was forced to surrender his throne
- Family was told they needed to take a picture to clear rumors of them escaping
- Armed men ran in and started shooting the family and their servants; they stabbed those who survived the shooting
