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Founding of Bolsheviks
@ Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in London -
Bloody Sunday
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Creation of Duma
October manifesto -
Partial Modernization of Russia
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World War I
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Unarmed Russian Soldiers sent to army lines
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Murder of Rasputin
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Terminal Crisis
Food shortages, heating fuel in short supply, economy breaking down -
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Violent street demonstrations in Petrograd
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Duma Declaration of Provisional Government
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Nicholas Abdicated
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February Revolution
Unplanned uprisings accompanied by violent street demonstrations -
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Lenin's Return to Russia
Germany allowed him safe passage back to Russia, hoping his return would pull them out of the war (it did) -
Lenin's Arrival at Petrograd's Finland Station
Immediately started his attack, rejected cooperation w/ the bourgeois political government -
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Government formed
By Alexander Kerensky; refused to confiscate large landholdings & give them to peasants - grew human suffering & war-weariness & tested limited strength of provisional government -
Army Order No. 1
Stripped officers of their authority & placed power in hands of elected committees of common solders; led to collapse of army discipline -
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Russia's Descent into Anarchy
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summer offensive against Germany
miserable failure; desertions mounted as peasant soldiers went back to help their families get land -
Premature attempt to seize power; Lenin into hiding
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General Lavr Kornilov against Kerensky
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Trotsky convinced Petrograd Soviet
To form a special military-revolutionary committee and make him leader -
Joining of Trotsky and Bolshevik Forces
They seized government buildings in Petrograd, then convinced the Congress of Soviets to give them power; Lenin head of new government -
Lenin's Decree on Land
No more private land -
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Lenin establishes a 1 party state
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Red Terror
Cheka imprisoned and executed without trial tens of thousands of 'class enemies' -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Western territories given up to Germany; Lenin accepted defeat -
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Trotsky War Commissar
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Full Fledged Russian Civil War
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Tsar and his family executed
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Westerners sick of war
few politicians wanted to get involved in a new military crusade -
White Armies close in on Central Russia
From 3 sides -
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White armies almost completely defeated
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Red Army overran Causcasus Government