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Rasputins' Assassination
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Petrograd Soviets Formed
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The March Revolution
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Czar Nicholas II Abdication
Nicholas II signed his enforced abdication in favor of Grand Duke Mikhail who effectively declined in power -
Communism Takes Over Russia
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Bolshevik Revolution
-The Bolsheviks' persistance on seizing the Winter Palace plunged into an immediate civil war wich quickly ended with the Bolsheviks' victory in 1921 -
The Russian Civil War
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Lenin Shipped by Germans to Russia
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Royal Family Murdered
The telegram giving the order to execute the russian royalty was signed by Yakov Sverdlov -
Lenin Signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The war between Russia and Germany in 1918 came to an end due to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk