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The Social Democratic Party Splits
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In 1897 the Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Mensheviks was the minority of the two groups and was lead by V.I Lenin. The Bolshevik party was lead by Lennon Trotsky, wanted to overthrow the current government with the help of the workers and the peasants. -
Provisional Government
SiteThe Soviets recognized the authority of the Provisional Government in return for its willingness to carry out the contriol of the USSR, and the eight measures (somewhat like America's Constitution; Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religon). Many people in the USSR were not in favor of Provisional Government because of it having no benefit. Therefore, it did not last long. -
Jan Bloody Sunday
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Tsarist troops open fire on a peaceful demonstration of workers in St Peters burg. This showed that the Tsar didn’t even care for his own people and sparked unrest. Father George Gapon led the protesters who had a petition for the king to better their living conditions.This event eventually led to the Russian revolution and the fall of the Tsar. -
Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks Split Permanently
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Both sides had meetings in different places, the Mensheviks went to Geneva, Switzerland and the Bolsheviks went to London to prove the split was permanent. Even though they showed signs of never reuniting, strangely the Bolsheviks voted for their reunification of both groups. They voted on one leader who would dominate the two groups. This man did not want them to reunite officially unless he said so- his name was vladimir Lenin. -
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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 played a very important role in world history and also a uprising of peasants and low class people. Baltic peoples also played a major role in the 1917 Revolution, particularly the Latvian Bolsheviks who comprised a key portion of the Red Guards that defended the Bolsheviks at a crucial time in its early existence. When the Allies finally withdrew their troops from the Soviet Union in 1920 the Civil War came to an end. http://goo.gl/VVqPg -
Tsars Abdication
http://goo.gl/3SedQ The soldiers blaimed the Tsar for all of there loses in the War due to all of the mismanagement that was going on with the army. Because of this he lost control of the streets, his soldiers, and finally the Duma. -
The General Strike comes to an End
http://goo.gl/rG4Cf The strike ends and everyone goes back to work only in fear of being arrested. The government strikes terror into the lives of the people and arrests many of them anyways for being so called spies. All soldiers are called inn from the front line to Petrograd to show force and power over the people. -
Lenin goes into Hiding
http://goo.gl/m4xUuhttp://goo.gl/b2sQf The provisional Government orders for the arrest of Lenin claiming that he is a German spy. They also claimed that the Bolsheviks incited the uprising. Also the Petrograd garrison is disband. -
Bolsheviks win Petrograd Soviet
Bolsheviks win Petrograd Soviet
The Bolsheviks under Lenin plotted to overthrow the heavily unpopular provisional government. in September of 1917 he took control of the Petrograd soviet, or the soldiers and workers union of the provisional government. Once he had control of that he was steps away from overthrowing the provisional government and controlling all of Russia. -
The Bolsheviks Finally Take Over
SiteOctober 25, 1917, Bolshevik soldiers envaded the Winter Palace and arrested members of the Provisional Government. This is often referred to as the "bloodless coup" which put the Bolsheviks in power. The Bolsheviks gained power through the elctions, nearly a day after the event took place. But one month later when elections were held again, the Bolsheviks failed to gain any votes from the majority. -
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The Civil War
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The Civil War between the Red Army and the White Russians
Summary: The Red Army, established after the Bolsheviks took power, gained around 5 million people during the civil war. During the civil war, the Red Army fought the White Army who opposed the way the Bolsheviks violently took power. After 4 years of fighting the Red Amy finally defeated the White causing an end to the civil war and the beginning to a communist country. -
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Assassination of German ambassador
The left SRs assassinate the German ambassador and are in turn crushed by the Bolsheviks. This was very important because it caused the split between the soviets and the Bolsheviks. This led to the development of the one party system in Russia because the Bolsheviks didn’t want to do anything with the leftist and gradually eliminated them. No one is sure why the leftist ordered the strikes or when. -
Czar Nicholas II Executed
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On the day of July 17, 1918, Czar Nicholas II and his entire family was murdered in a cellar at the Ipatiev House. After being brutally shot to death, and all blood relatives of this family dead, the Bolsheviks could finally take over Russian and turn it into a communist country. -
The Death of Vladimir Lenin
Lenin's government nationalized industry and distributed land, and on December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established. Upon Lenin's death in early 1924, his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin. Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. Fellow revolutionary Joseph Stalin succeeded him as leader of the Soviet Union.
