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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was the first great war of the 20th century. Russia wanted a warm water port near the Pacific Ocean. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday in Russsia was a masacure In which armed soldiers fired upon an unarmed crowd of russian citizens Protesting the tsar -
Revolution 1905
The 1905 Russian Revolution was sparked off by a peaceful protest, the protest was said to be the turning point in the relationship with the tsar, Nicholas II. -
Creation of the Duma
The Duma was the first councle assembleys created by the tsar of Russia -
Russia enters WWI
Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world. When fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers -
March Revolution
The Tsar was removed from the throne, there were great changes being made in Russia -
Nicholas II abdicates the throne
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Lenin returns from exile in Germany
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik party, returns after a decade of exile. To take charge of the Russian Revolution -
Kerensky heads the provisional goverment
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Lenin takes power
As leader of the bolshvicks, Lenin takes over the throne turning it into the Russian socialist Federitive Soviet Republic, The worlds first soviet state. -
Civil war Begins
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Russia pulls out of WWI (Brest-Litovsk)
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Assassination of Romanov Family
The Ramanov family was shot inYekaterinburg,The shooting was led by led by Yakov Yurovsky. -
Trotsky Wins civil War
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Stalin comes to power
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Russia becomes a totalitarian state
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Great Purge
Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin's real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society,
