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Russian Social Democratic labor party splits into Bolsheviks andMensheviks
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Russo-Japanese war
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russian revolution of 1905
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start of world war 1
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murder of royal advise Grigon Rasputin
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Febuary Revolution leads to Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and to rule by a provisional government
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october Revolution led by Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin
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Period: to
Russian Civil war betweens reds (bolsheviks) and whites, w/ foreign aid supplied to whites
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Lenin orders the executions of Nicholas II and his family
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USSR (union of Soviet socialist republics , or simply the soviet union)
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death of vladimir lenin