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world war 1 begins
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. when Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death with his wife by the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. -
czar Nicholas 2 abdicates (gives up power)
abdicated on behalf of himself and his son. He and his family were imprisoned and transferred to Tobolsk in late summer -
the Bolshevik party changes it name to the commnist party
to All-Union Communist Party and to Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1952. -
Russian cicil war begins
apart for three years – between and occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks. -
Czar Nicholas 2 and his family are executed
The Russian Imperial Romanov family and all those who chose to accompany them into imprisonment—notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov—were shot, bayoneted and clubbed -
Russian civil war ends
He could not, however, avoid a civil war in Russia. The Bolsheviks were made to fight for control of the country. -
Lenin dies
he die diesof a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54. -
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