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  Serfs (rural slaves) were freed in 1861
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  Early 1900's , Russia's economy slowed.
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  Jan 22, 1905 thousands of men, women, and children peacefully marched to Czar Nicholas's winter palacein St.Petersburg
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  Czar dissolved the first two dumas (1906 and 1907) after only a few months
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  Germany declare war on Russia in August 1914
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  WOELD WAR i (1914 and 1918) highlighted the weakness of Czarist rule
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  December 1916, a group of russian nobles loyal to the Czar murdered rasputin
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  a series of rebillions against the Russian Czar
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  in March 15, 1917 the goverment force Czar Nicholas abdicate
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  trotsky had returned to petrograd in May 1917 and was chosen to head the soviet