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(Person)
He reigned 1894-1917
He was the last Russian ruling Czar & was assassinated/executed with his family. -
(Person)
He was known as a "Holy Man" & able to control Alexie's bleeding. He was later assassinated by Prince Felix by poison, shot 4 times, beaten with iron bar then tied up & stuffed into ice of Neva River in Russian winter time. -
(Person)
He was a communist revolutionary and later became the leader of the Soviet Russian government. -
(Person)
He won the power struggle after Lenin died. He wants to transform the Soviet Union into a industrial society instead of an agricultural society. So he focused on "socialism in one country". -
(Person)
He was member/Leader of the duma also known as the Prime Minister of Russia. He wanted a liberal socialist-democratic government -
(War)
The defeat of Russian from japan was humiliating & lead to the 1905 Revolution -creation of the Duma. -
(Politics)
Conservative threat from General Kornilov. Bolsheviks join the provisional government to defend Petrograd. Lenin returns & joins the coalition. -
(Politics)
It was International Woman's Day, so the women had organized a bread riot in Petrograd & the Socialist staged a general strike. -
(Politics)
200,000 workers marched through Petrograd. -
(Politics)
Alexandra blames the Duma. Nicholas orders Petrograd militia to put down the strike. Police & militia fire into the crowd & kill around 2 dozen. -
(Politics)
The police refused to act & removed their uniforms to join the crowd. So the troops switched sides. Ministers of the government arrested. -
(Politics)
Nicholas dissolved the Duma. Unable to return to Petrograd to restore order due to the rail strike.
His generals told Nicholas that he should abdicate so he does. -
(Politics)
Radical Bolsheviks kick out the Mensheviks from the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin arrives & demands a communist revolution then the Petrograd mob is not with him. -
Kerensky orders the arrest of all Bolshevik leaders. Lenin goes into hiding in Finland.
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(Politics)
Kerensky orders arrests of Bolsheviks, Trotsky urges Bolsheviks to strike back. -
(Politics)
Red Guard occupies key locations around the city. City goes on with its daily routine, -
(War)
Reds VS Whites
Red Terror, system of political repression. British, French, American, & Japanese intervention. -
(Person)
Lenin died of a stroke at 54 years old & his successor was unclear, Trotsky & Stalin most likely
