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Czars resist change
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Czars resist change
Alexander III wanted to make a uniform Russian culture. He wanted everyone to speak the same language and the have the same culture and religion. -
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Russia Industrializes
The number of factories more than doubled. The government sought foreign investors and raised taxes. -
Russia industrializes
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Bloody Sunday
About 200,000 workers and there families approached the Czars winter palace in St Petersburg. -
The March Revolution
Women textile workers in petrograd led a city wide strike. Nearly 200,000 workers were on strike. -
The Bolsheviks in power
Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia surrendered a large part of it territory. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin and the Bolsheviks soon gained control of the petrograd soviet and other major Russian cities. -
Civil war rages in Russia
Some people wanted people who were democratic some were socialist. -
New Economic Policy
NEP was a capitalist economy.It allowed peasants to sell there crops instead of giving them to the government