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The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.
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After breaking a series of agreements over the territories of Korea and Manchuria Russia and Japan broke out into war. The repeated losses by the Russians sparked anger back home ultimately leading to revolt. This war showed the czar’s weaknes and the revolts that were bound to break out
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Russia was fully unprepared for the war economically and as a military. Once again WWI revealed the weaknesses of
czarist rule of Nicholas II. In less than a year 4 million
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With Nicholas at the front, domestic issues and control of the capital were left with his wife Alexandra.
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he was killed by the czars relatives to save the monarchy.
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The Tsar's advisors tell Nicholas that he would no longer be supported by the military if a revolution started.
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People protesting for bread in the streets of the Russian capitol, Petrograd. 90,000 men and women were on strike and refused to leave the streets.
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nicholas gave up his power
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The Provisional Government was established, and Russia was left in their powers after csar quit.
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Lenin's Proclamation (October 25th on old Russian calender)
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The new government,Council of People's Commissars, withdrew Russia fromt he war with Germany.
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the Latvians declare their independence from Russia but find it hard to celebrate while occupying Germans are still sitting on their laps.
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The Estonians declare their independence from Russia
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renames the communist party
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918, that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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The Red Army has to withdraw from Kiev because of incoming Germans.
The Germans let themselves in because the Russians had just signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. -
The Bolsheviks took Czar and his family into custody, and later killed them at Yekaterinburg.
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The counterrevolutionaries began to organize their own group called The Whites.
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Trotsky set upthe Red Army and began preparing to fight the Whites
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the reds and the whites fought a bloody and violent civil war for the next 3 years
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The Communists win the civil war fought against the whites
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Russia becomes USSR (union of soviet socialist republics)
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ruled the soviet Union
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