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Russo-Japanese War, (1904–05), military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.
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The duma is an elected legislative body that, along with the State Council, constituted the imperial Russian legislature from 1906 until its dissolution at the time of the March 1917 Revolution.
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In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate
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DescriptionThe Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions of 1917
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The Provisional Government was formed in Petrograd in 1917 by the Provisional Committee of the State Duma
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When the Bolsheviks took over control of Russia from the Provisional government.
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Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 54.
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the first Five-Year Plan, implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods
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2nd wave of the first 5 year plan
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a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II
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the policy of eradicating the memory or influence of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism
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a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959
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A program instituted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s to restructure Soviet economic and political policy
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Instituted the Perestroika and Glasnost
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The policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
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The collapse of the Soviet Union