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Russia Industrializes
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Russia Industrializes
The government started to rise taxes. And wanted other countries to start investing in them.
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During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
The Revolutionary movement grows
People are becoming concerned due to the rapid industrialization, and how the growth of the factories had brought new problems. Some of the problems that had took place is the grueling working conditions, miserably low wages and child labor.
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When the industrial revolution first came to Britain and the U.S., there was a high demand for labor. Families quickly migrated from the rural farm areas to the newly industrialized cities to find work. -
Bloody Sunday
Many people went on a demonstration at czar's palace asking for better working conditions, more personal freedoms, and an elected national legislature. During the demonstration Nicholas ll's generals ordered all soldiers to fire on the crowded many where wounded and this was later known as the Bloody Sunday.
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The Bloody sunday provoked a wave of strikes and violence that spread across the country, nicholas allowed the creation of the duma - Russia's first parliament. -
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World war 1: The final Blow
Nicholas ll made a fateful decision to drag russia into world war 1, Russia wasn't ready to handle the military and economic costs. In 1915 Nicholas moved his headquarters to the war front, from there he wanted to rally his discouraged troops to victory.
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World war 1: The final Blow
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Bolsheviks in Power
Within days after the Bolsheviks takeover, Lenin ordered that all farmland to be distributed among the peasants. In 1918, Russia and germany signed the treaty of Brest - Litovsk.
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Civil war Rages in Russia
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Bolsheviks in Power
Within days after the Bolsheviks takeover, Lenin ordered that all farmland to be distributed among the peasants. In 1918, Russia and Germany signed the treaty of Brest - Litovsk.
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Civil war rages in Russia
The revolution leader, Leon Trotsky, expertly commanded the Bolshevik Red army. Several of the western nations, including the United States, sent military aid and forces to Russia to help the white army, but the where no help.
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Political Reforms
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Political Reforms
Bolsheviks leaders saw nationalism as a threat to unity and party loyalty. The Bolsheviks renamed their party the communist party. In 1924 the communists created a constitution based on socialist and democratic principles.
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