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Decembrist Revolt
-A group of military official went on a revolt against Tsar Nicholas I.
- These men felt threatened by the tsars power and they didn't think he deserved the Throne.
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Emancipation of the serfs
-Serfs were treated very inhumanely. Rapes, beatings and torture were a few of the violent ways serfs were treated,
- The emancipation granted a million people their liberty.
- It also granted peasents the right to their own land. -
Revolution of 1905
-People started to speak up about the issues in Russia and tried taking it up with the Government.
-Bloody sunday happened during this time.
-October Manifesto was a peace treaty created by Tsar Nicholas II; it created rights and liberties for the Russian People. -
Bloody Sunday
- Workers were fed up with the way they were working. Harsh conditons in the factories. Also very long hours.
- It was a massacre. Poilice fired at the protestors. They killed more than 100 people and also injured them, -This event kept repeating in other cities where people were standing up for what they thought was right.
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Russia Enters WWI
-Devastating Impact on Russia
-Rasputin predicted that Russia shouldn't go to war because it would be such a huge devastation to the country
-entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, 1,400,000 soldiers. -
Rasputin Murdered
- He was stabbed, shot and beaten, but he died becaues of drowing.
- Claimed he had healing powers and that he could predict the future. He predicted the outcome of Russia in WWI.
- viewed as a "Dark Force" that would ruin Russia.
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March Revolution
- 90,000 textile workers went on strike and they protested the shortage of bread and fuel that they were recieving, -Many people started making offensive signs aimed at the Tsar's, this upset the tsar. He sent out military to go shoot the protesters.
- The army shot their officers and decided to go against the Tsar and join the March Revoltion. At the end of the Revolution more than 400,00 people joined.
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Tsar Nicholas II Abdicates
-During his rule Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War
-Was killed first out of all the Romanovs when they were murdered
-He approved the Russian mobilization to enter WWI in 1914. -
Bolshevik Revolution
-Czar Nicholas II drug a million peasents into WWI and the Russian people started to become discouraged with the War and predicted that Russian would be in ruins by the end of it.
- The confidence in their leader (Nicholas II) was slowly draining.
-The Bolsheviks over threw the provisional Government and created a Marxist Government in Russia. This is when the Bolsheviks took over the country of Russia. -
Murder of the Romanovs
- Bolsheviks hated the Romanovs and everything they stood for
- The family was told there was trouble where they lived so they would be safer down in the basement. The first to be killed was Tsar Nicholas. -The two youngest in the Romanovs were missing when they found the remains of bones.
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Treaty of Versailles
-This was created to arrange what the Allies wanted to do to the Central Powers.
-Many believed that WWII happened because of this famous treaty.
-Everyone was blaming Germany so they set this Treaty up to get them -
Lenin Dies/ USSR formed
- Lennin Died in 1924 so he made Joesph Stalin the leader of the Soviet Union. -Trostsky was also another runner up for head spot. -Trostsky wanted to spread the revolution but Stalin wanted to secure the revolution in Russia "Socialism in one Country" -Overall Stalin succeeded.
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Stalin Takes Power/ Death of Trostky
- Trostky was assasinated. -Stalin took Power and formed the USSR
- When Stalin took power a lot of things changed in Russia.
